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faculty of seeing
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  • Gesihð visus, hlyst

    auditus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 42, 54.

  • Blind sceal his eágna þolian, oftigen bið him torhtre gesihðe,

      Gn. Ex. 40.

  • Blindum gesihðo caecis uisum, Lk. L. 4, 18. I a.

    the exercising of the faculty, a seeing

    :-- 'Hié God geseóð.' On þǽre gesihðe wesað ealle geleáffulle,
      Bl. H. 13, 27.
sight (lit. or fig. ) of a person or object.
where the person sees.
with gen. of person
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  • On wera gesiehðe,

      An. 620.

  • Tó gesyþþe

    ad (regis) presentiam,

      An. Ox. 3015.

  • Fore gesigðe his

    ante conspectum suum,

      Lk. L. 9, 52.

  • Fram Nerónes gesyhþe,

      Bl. H. 189, 36.

  • Hí ne móston cuman on his eágon gesihðe,

      Chr. 1048; P. 174, 10.

  • Hié gestódon on gesihþe þæs eádigan Andreas,

      Bl. H. 243, 6.
with dat.
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  • Hí ná heom God setton on gesyhðe

    non proposuerunt Deum ante conspectum suum,

      Ps. Th. 53, 3.

  • Him wæs án on gesyhðe engel,

      Dan. 273.

  • Cain gewát gongan Gode of gesyhðe,

      Gen. 1050.
with other constructions
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  • Hí ásetton on gesyhðe sigebeámas þrý fore Elenan cneó,

      El. 847.
where the person or object is seen
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  • Æt þǽre gesyhðe þæs sigebeámes,

      El. 965.

  • Hwilce þú gesihðe hæfst cræfta,

      Gen. 617.

  • Hé hié gelǽdeþ on sibbe gesyhþe,

      Bl. H. 79, 34.
eyes together with the faculty of sight; visus, oculi
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  • Wé ússe gesyhð (úre gesyhðe, v.l.) upp áhófon

    uisum leuabimus,

      Bd. 5, J; Sch. 552, 13.

  • Hé ne mihte bedydrian Martines gesihðe,

      Hml. S. 31, 824.
  • Þ nǽron gewemmede Martines gesihþa on óðra manna deáðe, 127.

  • Þ ic þíne anlícnysse sceáwige mid swá mænigfealdum besmitenum gesihþum (

    with eyes in so many ways defiled),

    23 b, 435.

  • Godes gesyhða behealdað ǽgðer ge góde ge yfele

    oculi Domini spectilantur bonos et malos,

      R. Ben. 25, 13.

  • God ðá hǽðenan ðeóda ætforan heora gesihðum ádwǽscte,

      Hml. Th. i. 46, 20.

  • Gesiþþe uisus (mortalium

    uisus

    aufugiunt),
      An. Ox. 3170.
a looking at, look
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  • Gesihð

    obtutus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 62, 42.

  • Gesihþum

    obtutibus,

      An. Ox. 406.
what is seen, a sight.
seen with the bodily eye
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  • Æfter ðǽre angelica gesihða

    (uisionem),

      Jn. p. 8, 3.

  • Cyning wæs þý blíþra . . . þurh þá fægeran gesyhð (

    the cross seen in the sky

    ),
      El. 98.

  • Nǽnigum men gié cueðe ðone gesihða,

      Mt. L. 17, 9.
seen in sleep or in ecstasy,
a vision
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  • Gesihð and wítegunga beóð gefyllede

    impleatur visio et prophetia.

      Hml. Th. ii. 14, 15.

  • Wæs S. Michael þǽm bisceope on gesihþe æteówed,

      Bl. H. 205, 35.

  • On úplicere gesihþe geleórednesse in oromate (i.

    uisione superna) extaseos,

      An. Ox. 404.

  • Gesiþþe

    in uisione, i. in somno,

    2107.

  • Þá hé slép, þá geseah hé Críst . . . Ðá hé þá gesihþe geseah (

    quo uisu

    ),
      Bl. H. 215, 31.

  • Ic þé háte þæt þú þás gesyhðe secge mannum,

      Kr. 96.
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v. lim-gesihþ, sib-gesihþ.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-siht.” 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/49673.

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