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ceás

  • noun [ feminine ]
  • adjective
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Grammar
ceás, e; f.
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strife, quarrel, contention
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  • Dyslic bið mannes ceás ongeán Godes gódnysse,

      Hml. Th. ii. 89, 26,
  • Ðá wróhtgeornan ðe ceáse wyrceað (cf. ða ðe wróhte sáwað, 357, 14)

    seminantes jurgia,

      Past. 177, 11.
  • Cǽsa

    insectationes, rixas,

      An. Ox. 4, 54.
reproof, chiding, rebuke
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  • Dauið anféng eáðmódlíce his ágnes ðegnes ceáse

    (

    correptionem

    ),
      Past. 145, 19. '
  • Ðonne ic him cídde, ðonne oncúdon hié mé.' Hié oncúðon hiene for ðǽre ceáse,

      355, 16.
  • For úre ceáse

    ex nostra increpatione,

      23.
Etymology
[O. Frs. káse. Lat. causa.]
Similar entries
v. or-, unbe-ceás; adj. ; ceást.
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v.  ceást.
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  • ceás, n.; adj.