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  • Gefeoht bellum

    vel pugna,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 84, 15.
fighting,
in a military sense, war: —
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  • Gefeohtes bodan

    praefeciales,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 36, 7.

  • Gefeohtes

    duelli,

    • ii. 96, 27: 27, 28.

  • Hí cómon fǽrlíce mid gefeohte tó Judan

    they suddenly attacked Judas,

    • Hml. S. 25, 653: 670.

  • Þá nán man mid gefeohte ne gefór,

    • Ors. 1. 2;
    • S. 30, 20.

  • Mid gefeohte sécan,

    • 3, 1;
    • S. 98, 11.

  • Mid gefeohte cnyssan,

    • S. 96, 8.

  • Ymb gefeoht sprecan,

    • Met. 8, 32.
rendering the personification Mars
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  • Wíg oððe gefeoht

    Mavors,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 37.

  • Gefeoht

    Martem,

    • 94, 18: 96, 23: 57, 14.
fighting between two or more persons
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  • Be préosta gefeohte. Gif preóst óðerne man ofsleá

    of fighting by priests. If a priest slay a man.

    • Ll. Th. i. 74, 18.

  • Be gefeohte. Gif hwá gefeohte on cyninges húse ... Gif hwá on mynstre gefeohte ... And þeáh hit sié on middum felda gefohten,

    • 106, 1-10.
a fight, combat, battle, war.
military, between opposing forces
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  • Næs ná mid Rómánum ǽr ne siþþan swá heard gefeoht ( pugna ) swá þǽr wæs,

    • Ors. 5, 7;
    • S. 230, 13.

  • On þǽre frymþe þæs gefeohtes,

    • Bl. H. 203, 5.

  • Se eádiga Michael þǽr wæs tóweard him tó fultome ðá hwíle ðe hié æt þǽm gefeohte wǽron,

    • 205, 3.

  • Æfter þissum gefeohte,

    • Chr. 871;
    • P. 72, 5.

  • On folces gefeohte

    in bello publico,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 150, 32: 386, 16.

  • Ne gehérde nón mon ymbe nán gefeoht sprecan,

    • Bt. 15;
    • F. 48, 15.

  • Ungelimplico gefeoht,

    • Bl. H. 107, 28.

  • Gefeoht

    bella,

    • Wülck. Gl. 255, 6.

  • Synd feówer cynna gefeoht iustum, iniustum, ciuile, plusquam ciuile. Iustum bellum is rihtlic gefeoht wið da réðan flotmenu,

    • Hml. S. 25, 705.
a fight between two or more persons
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  • Gif man beforan æðelinge gefeoht áginneð, mid .CL. scillinga gebéte,

    • Ll. Th. i. 332, 3.

  • Mé egleð swýðe and ús eallum þá unrihtlican and mænigfealdan gefeoht þe betwux ús sylfum syndan; þonne cwǽde wé: Gif hwá ǽnigne man ofsleá ...,

    • Ll. Th. i. 246, 24.

  • Be gefeohtum,

    • 106, 1 note.

  • Sé þe gefeohtu gesihð, blisse hit openað,

    • Lch. iii. 200, 7.
figurative, conflict, struggle for victory
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  • Gefeoht

    commissio, conflictus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 22.

  • Gefeohte

    conflictu (vitiorum ),

    • 77, 1.

  • Sé ðe gifehtað in gefeht

    qui certat in agone,

    • Rtl. 60, 15.

  • Iornia wé forárǽden ús gifeht

    curramus propositum nobis certamen,

    • 27, 29.

  • Gifeht gástlices wóghfulnisse

    impugnatione spiritalis nequitiae,

    • 121, 9.

  • Bið á wið firenum in gefeoht gearo,

    • Crä. 90.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. ge-feht pugna, praelium, bellum, certamen.
]
Similar entries
v. flet-, folc-, in-, on-, scip-, sige-, þurh-, út-, weorold-gefeoht, and ge-feaht in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-feoht.” 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/47919.

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