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ge-heald

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-heald, ge-hæld.
Wright's OE grammar
§419;
Substitute: ge-heald, es; n.
observation, marking, noticing
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  • Ríce Godes ne mið gehald tó cymende

    regnum Dei non cum obseruatione uenturum,

      Lk. p. 9, 10.
the observance of something prescribed,
holding, keeping
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  • Gewrit be gehealde rihtra Eástrana,

      Bd. 5, 21; Sch. 678, 20.
  • Betwyh gehald (

    obseruantiam

    ) regollices þeódscipes,
      5, 23; Sch. 695, 7.
a watch, guard
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  • Sete swǽse geheald múðe mínum

    pone custodiam ori meo,

      Ps. Th. 140, 4.
  • Gehald,

      Rtl. 179, 9.
  • Giheaeld,

      180, 12.
protection, shelter
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  • Ælfgár gesóhte Griffines geheald, Chr. 1055; P. 187, 2. IV a. in a personal sense,

    a protector, guardian

    :-- Francena kyning and Wyllelm eorl sceoldon beón his geheald,
      Chr. 1071; P. 206, 23.
  • Þæt mynster beó þám bisceope underþeód, and hé beó þǽrtó geheald and mund,

      Cht. Th. 391, 17.
    Þar in ich habbe god ihold, O. and N. 621.] Cf. ge-hild.
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  • ge-heald, n.