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number, measurement that determines how many
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  • Of geríme geteald (beón)

    laterculo dinumerari,

      An. Ox. 3227.

  • Þa hig wǽron on gehríme scortum

    cum essent numero brevi,

      Ps. L. 104, 12.

  • Heora tel oferstíhð sandceosles gerím, Hml. Th. i. 536, 35. gerímes

    in number

    :-- Hé giémde hwæt hé hæfde monna gerímes, and ne nóm náne ware húlíce hié wǽron,
      Ors. 5, 4; S. 224, 21.

  • Se tíma wæs standende twá þúsend wintra and twá hund and twá and feówertig geára gerímes, Angl. viii. 336, 2. la. in phrases denoting that objects cannot be counted :-- Hý wǽran gemanigfealdode ofer ǽle gerím

    (super numerum),

      Ps. Th. 39, 6.
reckoning, computation of time. v. gerím-cræft
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  • þá Egyptiscan ðeóda ongunnon heora geáres getel on hærfeste. Nú onginð úre gerím on ðysum dæge,

      Hml. Th. i. 98, 24.

  • Gyf þú nelt hine tellan tó þám mónan . . . þonne áwǽgst þú þone eásterlican regol and ǽlces níwes mónan gerím,

      Lch. iii. 264, 17.

  • II a. a calendar, numeral :-- Mæssepreóst sceal habban , . . sangbóc and handbóc, gerím (gerímbóc ?

    q. v. )

    and pastoralem,
      Ll. Th. ii. 350, 14.
a number, class of objects
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  • Þá beóð onhǽðenra manna geríme

    cum gentilibus adnumerandi sunt.

      Ll. Th. ii. 154, 30.

  • Seó forme ábécédé on þám geríme ys bútan pricon,

      Angl. viii. 322, 42.

  • Forgif mé ꝥ ic móte on þám gerýme beón þe ðú þá fore gebǽdæ,

      Angl. xii. 508,10.
a period of a certain number of days (?)
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  • Wé sceolan under þǽm feówerteóþan geríme

    (Lent)

    syllan þone teóþan dǽl úre worldspéda,
      Bl. H. 35, 18
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rím.” 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/49387.

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