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rǽden

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
rǽden, rǽdenn, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§378; §610;
a condition, stipulation
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  • Rǽden

    conditio,

      Hpt. Gl. 436, 1.

  • Rédin

    condicio,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 288, 44 : ii. 17, 10.

  • Ǽlc gebúr sylle .vi. hláfas ðam inswáne ðonne hé his heorde tó mæstene drífe, on ðam sylfum lande ðe ðeós rǽden on stænt,

      L. R. S. 4; Th. i. 434, 22.

  • Rǽdenne

    condicione,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 59.

  • Ðan (on ða ?) rǽdenne

    ea conditione,

      Hpt. Gl. 492, 8.

  • On ða rǽdenne ðe hé him gá tó honda,

      L. In. 62; Th. i. 142, 3.

  • Ðú bist Godes bearn þurh ða rǽdenne ðæt ðú ðínne feónd lufige,

      Homl. Th. i. 56, 7.

  • Raedinnae

    condiciones,

      Ep. GI. 7 f, 13.
rule, direction (v. rǽdan, IV)
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  • Hæfdon sume mid áþum gefæstnod ðæt hié on hire rǽdenne (rǽdinge, 193, col. a) beón woldan

    would be under her rule,

      Chr. 918; Th. i. 192, 12.
a reckoning, estimating
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  • Raedinne

    taxatione,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 122, 1.
  • The word occurs as the second part of many nouns, when its force is much the same as that of the suffixes -ship, -hood, -red, denoting a state, condition. v. bed-, bróðor-, burh-, camp-, feónd-, folc-, freónd-, gafol-, gebed-, gecwid-, gefér-, heord-, híw-, hús-, land-, mǽg-, mann-, meodo-, nám-, teón-, þing-, treów-, un-, weorc-, wíg-, woroldrǽden[n].
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Bosworth, Joseph. “rǽden.” 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/25478.

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