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deáþ

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Wright's OE grammar
§5; §135; §172; §239; §299; §301; §395;
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gen. es and (?) a, as being an old u-stem noun. v. deáða gedál (cf. deáþgedál, 936) dreógan,
    Gú. 206.
death,
of an individual
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  • Þa langan tíd þæs dimman deáðes

    mortis inamabile tempus,

      Dóm. L. 14.
  • Hé bið mid wítum þreád æfter his deáþe,

      Bl. H. 49, 25.
  • Seó culfre ne leofað be nánum deáðe,

      Hml. Th. ii. 46, 18.
  • Deáða swælteþ

    morte moriatur,

      Mt. R. 15, 4.
  • Giniðrias hine tó deóða,

      Mk. R. 10, 33.
  • Of deóða his

    de morte ejus,

      Jn. R. 11, 13.
  • Deóðe,

      Lk. R. 23, 15.
  • Hé líchomlicne deáþ geþrowode,

      Bl. H. 103, 10.
  • Oþ þone deáþ hé hine tintregaþ,

      59, 30.
  • Oð deáð

    letotenus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 41.
  • Oþ deáþ beswungen, Hml. S. 25, 782. (1 a)

    a particular mode of death

    :-- Hé eall tóbærst . . . Iulius wæs wániende ꝥ hé swelce deáðe swealt,
      Ors. 5, 12; S. 244, 5: Jn. 12, 33.
  • Ceás hé him þone deáþ ꝥ him mon ofléte blódes on þám earme,

      Bt. 29, 2; F. 104, 23.
  • Hwelc moncwealm wæs mid monigfealdum deáðum,

      Ors. 2, 5; S. 84, 33.
  • Wé geáxiað ungecyndelico wítu and ungecynelice deáþas,

      Bl. H. 107, 26.
in the abstract
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  • Gif hit ǽnige hwíle wunaþ, se deáþ hit húru áfirreþ. Hwæt syndon þá woruldsǽlþa óþres búton deáþes tácnung, for þám se deáþ ne cymð tó nánum óþrum þingum bútan ꝥ hé ꝥ líf áfyrre,

      Bt. 8; F. 26, 3-7.
  • Hwæt is ꝥ líf elles buton lytelu ylding þæs deáþes?,

      Bl. H. 59, 28.
  • Ealle men geendiaþ on þám deáþe,

      Bt. 11, 2; F. 34, 35.
  • Heó þone deáþ forleás, and ꝥ éce líf gemétte,

      Hml. S. 7, 11.
personified (or localized)
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  • Se deáþ him tó cymeþ Godes dóm tó ábeódenne,

      Bl. H. 59, 11.
  • Frecces deáðes

    ambronis orci (faucibus ),

      An. Ox. 11, 107.
  • Deáðe

    orco,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 64, 69.
state of being dead
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  • Seó hefige byrþen siteþ on þǽm deádan líchoman þǽre byrgenne and þæs deáþes,

      Bl. H. 75, 8.
  • Hé of deáþe áríseþ,

      15, 12: 67, 25.
  • Swylce wé on deáðe lágon, Hml. S. 11, 240. II a.

    state after death of those not in heaven :-- Genere mé (Eve in hell )

    of þysses deáþes bendum,
      Bl. H. 89, 24.
  • Tó þon écan deáþe,

      61, 8.
cause or occasion of death (as in to be the
death of a person)
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  • Eálá deáþ, ic beó þín deáþ,

      Bl. H. 67, 17.
a dead person, departed spirit
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  • Ic gedyde ꝥ man hyne on róde áhéng . . ., and nú ic wylle hys deáþ tó þé gelǽdan,

      Nic. 14, 21.
  • Deáðas

    manes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 57, 57.
  • Ge*-*gang þá deáða bearn þe hí démað nú

    posside filios morte punitorum,

      Ps. Th. 78, 12.
  • Þurh deáðes(-as?) wítgung

    nicromantia,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 62, 30.
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