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metod-sceaft

  • noun [ feminine ]
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metod-sceaft, e; f.
Decree of fate, doom, fate after death
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  • Ealle Wyrd forsweóp míne mágas tó metodsceafte (

    to their doom

    ),
    • Beo. Th. 5623
    • ;
    • B. 2815.
  • Gást onsende Matheus his tó metodsceafte (

    to the fate appointed to it

    ),

    in écne gefeán,

    • Menol. Fox 342
    • ;
    • Men. 172.
  • Weccaþ of deáþe dryhtgumena bearn tó meotudsceafte

    the children of men shall awake from death to doom,

    • Exon. 21 a
    • ;
    • Th. 55, 24
    • ;
    • Cri. 888.
  • Hé forþ gewát metodsceaft seón

    he died,

    • Cd. 83
    • ;
    • Th. 104, 31
    • ;
    • Gen. 1743: Beo. Th. 2364
    • ;
    • B. 1180.
  • Heó metodsceaft (

    the death of her kinsmen

    )

    bemearn,

    • 2158
    • ;
    • B. 1077.
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