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bí-geng

  • noun [ feminine ]
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bí-geng, (big-).
Wright's OE grammar
§12; §570;
Add: and e ; f. (? v. An. Ox. 2283 infra.)
practice, exercise, doing
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  • Líf mid gódra weorca bigenge frætwian,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 402, 5
    • .
  • Bígencge,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 48, 28
    • .
  • Biggenge,

    • R. Ben. 3, 7
    • .
  • For lárlicere bígenge

    propter gymnicum (philosophiae) stadium,

    • An. Ox. 2283
    • .
  • Onscuniendlice on biggen[g]on (studiis) heora,

    • Ps. Spl. 13, 2
    • .
  • ꝥ man mid gódum biggencgum Gode gecwéme,

    • Hml. S. 13, 114.
cultivation, tillage
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  • Hí swuncon on wíngeardes biggencge,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 74, 33, 25
    • .
religious or ecclesiastical practice, observance, worship
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  • Bígenge

    cultura (paganorum).

    • An. Ox. 4558
    • .
  • Ðis hǽðen-gyld deófles biggeng is,

    • Hml. Th. i. 72, 4
    • .
  • On bíggenge Godes beboda,

    • 544, 25
    • .
  • Tó þám bígenge his gebeda

    ad orationis studium,

    • Gr. D. 36, 19
    • :
    • 71, 10
    • .
  • Gástlicre rǽdincge bígencge

    (studio),

    • Angl. xiii. 392, 383
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  • Regullicum bígincge,

    • 388, 353
    • .
  • Se gewuna belaf of hǽðenra manna biggenge,

    • Hml. A. 146, 47
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  • Ænigne deófles bígencg tó dónne,

    • 143, 122
    • .
  • ꝥ hiora biggencgas ne wurdon ádwǽscte,

    • Hml.S. 22, 195.
  • Bígencgum

    ceremoniis .i. legibus divinis,

    • An. Ox. 2224
    • .
  • ꝥá þe Godes beboda mid biggengum ne healdad,

    • Hml. S. 16, 172
    • .
  • Godes biggencgum,

    • 24, 10
    • :
    • 25, 738.
  • Mid wólicum biggencgum,

    • 18, 392.
  • Mánfulles hǽ þenscipes bígengcas

    ceremonias,

    • An. Ox. 2624
    • .
  • Hwí ðú úre goda biggencgas forseó,

    • Hml. S. 8, 57
    • .
  • Godes biggengas,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 66, 16
    • .
  • Bysega and bígengas þysses Drihtenlican þeówdómes,

    • R. Ben. 5, 10
    • .
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v. bí-genge.
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v.  -geng bí-genge heofon-bígenged.
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