GE-RÉFA

noun [ masculine ]

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Grammar

GE-RÉFA, ge-reáfa, groefa, an; m.

Wright's OE grammar

A prefect, steward, fiscal officer of the shire or county, judge, reeve or sheriff, count; præpŏsĭtus, villĭcus, jūdex, præfectus, cŏmes

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Fóreset vel geréfa

præpŏsĭtus,
Cwæþ se geréfa

ait villĭcus,
Gif man biscopes esne tihte oððe cyninges, cænne hine on geréfan hand, oððe hine geréfa clénsie, oððe selle to swinganne

if any one accuse a bishop's servant or that of the king, he shall clear himself before the judge, either the judge shall clear him or give him up to be scourged,
Ðæs cynges geréfa

the king's reeve,
Gif hit se geréfa ne amanige mid rihte

if the reeve do not lawfully exact it [the fine],
Ðæt ǽlc geréfa náme ðæt wedd on his ágenre scire, ðæt hí ealle ðæt friþ healdan woldan

that each reeve should take a pledge in his own shire, that they would all hold the peace,
Ðæt ǽlc geréfa fylste óðrum to úre ealra friþe

that every reeve may help another for the common peace of us all,
v. §
Ðæs landrícan and ðæs biscopes geréfa

the landlord's and the bishop's reeve,
Iosep, se æðela geréfa, of Arimathia

Ioseph ab Arimathæa, nŏbĭlis decŭrio,
Sum wæs ǽhtwelig æðeles cynnes, ríce geréfa

there was a wealthy man of noble race, a powerful count,
Se geréfa hét Iulianan

the count commanded Juliana,
73 b;
Geréfa mín

my steward,
Ealdorman oððe geréfa

cŏmes,
Geréfa

consul,
Nán man ne hwyrfe nánes yrfes bútan ðæs geréfan gewitnesse

let no man exchange any property without the witness of the reeve,
On ǽlces geréfan manunge

in every reeve's district,
iv.
Iohanna, Chuzan wíf, Herodes geréfan

Ioana, uxor Chusae, procurātōris Herōdis,
He cwæþ to his geréfan

præcēpit dispensātōris dŏmus suæ dīcens,
Gecýðe cyninges geréfan

let them declare it to the king's reeve,
Swá hie geþingian mǽgen wið cyning and his geréfan

as they can agree with the king and his reeve,
Gif man ðone geréfan teó

if any accuse the reeve,
On Lindcolene ceastre geréfan

pertingens ad præfectum Lindocolinæ civitatis,
He sende his geréfan

mīsit præfectum suum,
Míne ealdormen and míne geréfan

my aldermen and my reeves,
Ic wille, ðæt bisceop and ða geréfan hit beódan

I will that the bishop and the reeves command it,
i. prm;
Ic wille, ðæt míne geréfan gedón, ðæt man agife da ciricsceattas and sáwlsceattas

I will that my reeves cause that a man shall give the church-scots and the soul-scots,
i. prm;
Ic Æðelstán cyningc cýðe [MS. cýð] ðám geréfan to hwilcere birig

I, Æthelstan king, make known to the reeves at each town,
i. prm;
Eádwerd cyning být ðám geréfum eallum, ðæt ge déman swá rihte dómas swá ge rihtoste cunnon, and hit on ðære dómbéc stande

King Edward commands all the reeves, that ye pass the most righteous sentences you can, and as it stands in the doom book,
Se sette geréfan geond eall ðæt ríce

qui constĭtuat præpŏsĭtos per cunctas regiones,
He hét sécan síne geréfan

he commanded to seek his officers,
We ðǽr settan and geendebyrdedon úre geréfan

ordinarios proprætoresque nostros proposuimus,
From ðen groefæ

a præside,
See Stubbs' Const. Hist. and Schmid A. S. Gesetz.

s. v;
Kemble's Saxons in

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v. ge-reáfa réfa geréfscipe.

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Bosworth, Joseph. “GE-RÉFA.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/15667.

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