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birth, creation
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  • Cennung, gescæp

    concretio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 26. v. cenning.
what is created,
creation, created things
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  • Ic þec biddan wille þurh þæt æðele gesceap þe þú, fæder engla, on fruman settest,

      Jul. 273.
a creature
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  • On ðám æfteran dæge God gesceóp ðá gesceapu ðe ðisne heofon healdað,

      Sal. K. p. 178, ID.
what is shaped, ordered
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  • Conditio, natura, sors, regula, lex, rectitudo gescæp, gewyrd, gescæft, gebyrd,

    Wrt. Voc. i.

      135, 63.
of material things,
shape, form
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  • Hí beóð oð ðene nafolan on menniscum gesceape

    usque ad umbilicum hominis speciem habent,

      Nar. 36, 19.

  • Adam . . . God gehíwad hæfde tó mænniscum gesceape, on þrytiges wintres ylde,

      Angl. xi. 2, 26.

  • Nípende niht, scaduhelma gesceapu scríðan cwóman,

      B. 650.
nature, natural condition
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  • Án þára nunnena wæs swýþe fægru æfter þæs líchaman gesceape

    una virginum juxta carnis hujus putredinem speciosa videbatur,

      Gr. D. 28, 26.

  • Wixþ se milte ofer gesceap,

      Lch. ii. 242, 28.

  • On gesceap

    naturally,

      Rä.39, 4.

  • Ǽr gé sceonde wið gesceapu fremmen

    ere ye commit shameful sin against the laws of nature,

      Gen. 2469.
lot, fate, appointed condition of life, destiny
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  • [Hé] heóld on heáh gesceap

    he fulfilled a high destiny,

      B. 3084.

  • Ic (

    a cuckoo)

    under sceáte, swá mín gesceapu wǽron, ungesibbum wearð eácen gǽste,
      Rä.10, 7.

  • Swá scríðende gesceapum

    (fortuitu

    v. wyrd-gesceap) hweorfað gleómen,
      Víd. 135.

  • Dryhten scyreð and scrífeð and gesceapo healdeð

    (governs the destinies of men),

      Vy. 66 :. Gen. 2827.

  • Gesceapu dreógeð

    fulfils its destinies,

      Ph. 210: Rä.69, 4.
a condition imposed by providence, order of providence
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  • Swá gesceapu wǽron werum and wífum,

      Gen. 1573.
  • Bídan selfes gesceapu heofoncyninges, 842.
ordered courss of events
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  • Wyrda gesceapu,

      Ru. 40, 24.
shaping, forming
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  • On gesceape

    in (rerum visibilium) plastica,

      An. Ox. 8, 346.
privy part
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  • Þæs fylmenes ofcyrf on ðám gesceape,

      Hml. Th. i. 94, 33.
Etymology
[Cf. Icel. skap state, condition; skOp ; pl. fate, destiny: skOp-in (with article) the genitals]
Similar entries
v. wyrd-gesceap. Cf. ge-sceaft, ge-sceapennys.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sceap.” 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/49521.

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