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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
      • .
service of the church, divine service :--
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  • 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
      • .
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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