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ge-sceád

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-sceád, -scád, es; n.
separation, distinction, difference
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  • Ðæt gesceád

    separatio,

      Lk. Skt. Lind, 12, 51.

  • Gesceád

    distinctio,

      Mt. Kmbl. p. 3, 3: Mk. Skt, Rush. 4, 12.

  • Eálá mid hú micle gesceáde God todǽlde betwih leóht and ðýstru

    O quam grandi distantia divisit deus inter lucem et tenebras,

      Bd. 5, 14; S. 634, 37.

  • He sceal geþencan ðæt gedál and ðæt gesceád

    he must consider the distinction and the difference,

      L. de Cf. 1; Th. ii. 260, 13.

  • Gescád,

      Exon. 94 a; Th. 353, 16; Reim. 13.
power of distinguishing, reason, discretion, discrimination, an account, a reckoning, argument
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  • Gé habbaþ gesceád ǽgðer ge gódes ge yfeles

    ye can distinguish between good and evil,

      Homl. Th. i. 176, 24.

  • Fordý sealde God mannum gesceád

    therefore has God given reason to men,

      96, 13: 7: Bt. Met. Fox 20, 436; Met. 20, 218: 22, 88; Met. 22, 44.

  • On gesceád witan

    to understand,

      Exon. 83 b; Th. 314, 3; Mód. 8.

  • Gesceád witan, cunnan [with gen; cf. the same phrase in O. Sax. wissun thingo giskéd; and the Ger. bescheid wissen]

    to be able to distinguish between things, to understand them,

      Homl. Th. 186, 4: Beo. Th. 582; B. 288.

  • Gesceád

    discretio,

      Bd. 1, 27; S. 496, 35.

  • Gesceád agyldan

    to render an account,

      Mt. Bos. 12, 36: Homl. Th. i. 96, 20: ii. 50, 1.

  • Ðæt he mid gesceáde hine betealde unsynninne

    that he proved himself sinless with reasoning,

      226, 11: Chr. 1070; Erl. 208, 17.

  • For hwylcum gesceáde

    propter quam rationem, quapropter,

      Ælfc. Gr. 44; Som. 46, 16.

  • Myd gewyssum gesceáde

    propter certam rationem,

      Nicod. 3; Thw. 2, 6.
Etymology
[O. Sax. gi-skéd: O. H. Ger. ga-skeit distinctio, discretio, distantia.]
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v.  ge-scád -sceád.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sceád.” 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/15838.

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