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ge-dreog

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-dreog, and ge-dreóg. Substitute: ge-dreóg, es; n.
a dressing, something used in preparing material for use
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  • Ðá hremmas bróhton ðám láreówe lác tó médes swínes rysl his scón tó gedreóge (

    the passage in Bede's life of Cuthbert is : Corvi digna munera ferunt, dimidiam axungiam porcinam ; quam vir fratribus. . . ad ungendas caligas praebere solebat, c. 20),

    • Hml. Th. ii. 144, 29.
seemly, orderly behaviour, gravity
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  • Se munuc eádmódlíce mid gedreóge sprece

    monachus humiliter cum gravitate loquatur,

    • R. Ben. I. 35, 10.

  • Þæt mid heálicum gedreóge and gemetgunge árwurðlícor beó

    quod cum summa gravitate et moderatione honestissime fiat,

    • 75, 10.

  • Mid ofoste sí becumen; mid gedreóge þeáhhwæðere ꝥ ne gehigeleás méte tender

    cum festinatione curratur: cum gravitate tamen, ut non scurilitas inveniat fomitem,

    • 17.

  • Ofer ealle his gód hé hine tó ealdre for his gedreóge (cf. hé on rihtne tíman hwǽte gedǽlde his efenðeówum, 4) gesette,

    • R. Ben. 123, 6.
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  • tó gedreóge gán

    ad necesssaria naturae exire,

    • R. Ben. 32, 22.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dreog.” 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/47679.

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