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Add: gen. e (?).
a secret, secret counsel:
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  • Nyte gé ðá micclan deópnysse Godes gerýnu (cf. Godes digelan dómas, 3)?,

      Hml. Th. ii. 340, 8.
a mystery
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  • For is þæt hálige hflsel geháten gerýnu, for ðan ðe Sðer ðing is ðǽron suggests that ge-sǽd, rather than ge-sǽli

    should be read, and that the

    gesewen, and ððer ðing undergyten,
      Hml. Th. ii. 270, 27.

  • II a.

    mystery, mysterious matter

    :-- JJis godspel is mid menigfealdre mihte heofenlican gerýnu áfylled,
      Hml. Th. i. 90, 10.

  • III. a religions rite, sacrament :-- GSstlicere gerýne

    mistico (baptismatis) officio,

      An. Ox. 2884.

  • Hé þigde þá gerýnu

    (sacramentum)

    þæs drihten-lican líchaman and blades,
      Gr. D. 275, 12.

  • Ill a.

    the consecrated elements of the Eucharist :

    — Sacerdas cóman and hi gehusloden mid háligre gerýnu,
      Hml. S. 9, 148.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rýnu.” 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/49444.

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