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þeów-dóm

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
þeów-dóm, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§597;
Service; in an unfavourable sense servitude, slavery, bondage, thraldom
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  • Ðes þeówdóm

    haec seruitus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 33; ZuP. 60, 7.

  • Þeówdóm mancipatio, Wrt. Voc. i. 59, 57:

    famulatus,

    ii.
      147, 35.

  • Þeówdómum

    famulatibus,

      34, 3.

  • Ðeówdóm is twyfeald ... Is óðer ðeówt neádunge búton lufe, óðer is sylfwilles mid lufe, se gedafenaþ Godes ðeówum,

      Homl. Th. ii. 524, 3.
in the more favourable sense
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  • For lufan ðæs godcundan ðeówdómes,

      Bd. 4, 23; S. 593, 31.

  • Godes þeówdómes,

      Blickl. Homl. 23, 18.

  • Ne þearft ðú nó wénan, ðæt ða wlitegan tungl ðæs þeówdómes áþroten weorðe,

      Met. 29, 40.

  • Embichta ðeádómes

    obsequium servitutis,

      Mt. Kmbl. p. 8, 3: Rtl. 9, 13.

  • Wyrta ðeówdóme manna,

      Ps. Spl. 103, 15.

  • Swá hwá swá ðæs wyrþe biþ, ðæt hé on heora ðeówdóme beón mót, ðonne biþ hé on ðam héhstan freódóme,

      Bt. 5, 1; Fox l0, 13.

  • On Godes ðone sóþan þeówdóm,

      Blickl. Homl. 45, 24: Elen. Kmbl. 402; El. 201.

  • Hé hine sylfne on ðeówdum (-dóm, Bd. M. 450, 29) gesealde ðara muneca monachorum famulatui se contradens, Bd. 5, 19; S. 637, 12. I a. service of the church,

    divine service

    :-- On mynstre ðǽr lytel þeówdóm sý,
      L. C. E. 3; Th. i. 360, 22.

  • Nú habbaþ hig ðæt mynster gesett mid preóstan, and willaþ ðǽr habban þeówdóm eall swá man hæfþ on Paules byrig on Lundene,

      Chart. Th. 370, 22.
in the less favourable sense
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  • Gif se Godes þeów nelle ðære cyrican on riht þeówian ðæt hé ðonne mid lǽwedum mannum onfó ðæs heardestan þeówdómes,

      Blickl. Homl. 49, 5.

  • Se freódóm ðæs unáræfnedlícan þeówdómes

    freedom from the intolerable bondage,

      137, 13.

  • From deófles þeówdóme,

      65, 33: 73, 8.

  • Hí synd of miclum dǽle heora sylfes anwealdes, hwæþere of miclum dǽle hí syndon Angelcynnes ðeówdóme betǽhte (

    Anglorum sunt servitio mancipati

    ),
      Bd. 5, 23; S. 647, 4.

  • Nales ðæt án ðæt men hié mehten áliésan mid feó of þeówdóme, ac eác þeóda him betweónum búton þeówdóme gesibbsume wǽron,

      Ors. 1, l0; Swt. 48, 34.

  • Ealle ða men ðe hié on ðeówdóme hæfdon, hié gefreódon,

      4, 9; Swt. 190, 31: L. Alf. prm.; Th. i. 44, 5.

  • In nédhérnisse ł in ðeádóme ic bégo

    in servitutem redigo,

      Rtl. 6, 9.

  • Þeówdóm þolian,

      Cd. Th. 135, 9; Gen. 2240: 136, 24; Gen. 2263.

  • Ðeádóm

    captivitatem,

      Lk. Skt. p. 10, 16.
Etymology
[Heo woneð inne þeowedome (þeu-, 2nd MS.), þrelwerkes doð, Laym. 454. I þeowwdom unnderr laferdd, Orm. 3611. Leden ut of þeoudome (þeowedom, MS. C.), A. R. 218, 28. Leaden in to þeowdom, H. M. 5, 5.]
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v. ǽfen-þeówdóm.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “þeów-dóm.” 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/31784.

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