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fóre-gísel

  • noun [ masculine ]
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fóre-gísel, gen. -gísles; m. [gísel a hostage]
A foremost hostage, principal or eminent hostage; præstans vel electus obses
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  • Salde se here him fóregíslas and micle áþas

    the army gave him eminent hostages with great oaths,

    • Chr. 878
    • ;
    • Erl. 80, 16: 877
    • ;
    • Erl. 79, 24.
  • Norþhymbre and Eást-Engle hæfdon Ælfréde cyninge áþas geseald, and Eást-Engle fóregísla vi

    the Northumbrians and East-Angles had given oaths to king Alfred, and the East-Angles six principal hostages,

    • Chr. 894
    • ;
    • Erl. 90, 4.
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  • fóre-gísel, n.