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as verbal abstract.
getting by effort , gaining, acquiring by dealing,
traffic, commerce
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  • Gestrión

    commercium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 41.

  • Gestreón

    negotium,

      Hpt. Gl. 469, 5.

  • Mangung, gestreón

    mercimonium, commercium,

      An. Ox. 4007.

  • Seó gesomnung þára deárwyrþra gimma oþþe ꝥ unmǽte gestreón goldes and seolfres,

      Bl. H. 99, 28.

  • Of eorþlicum cýpinga gestreóne

    de terreno nundinarum mercatu.

      An. Ox. 2656.

  • Mid mangunge, gestreóne

    commercio,

    3064.

  • Ne mage gé Gode ðeówian and eóweres feós gestreóne, Hml. Th. ii. 460, 31. (l a) of getting by violence, rapine, robbery :-- Wæs hé hogiende tó gestreóne (reáfláce, v.l.) manna æhta

    in rapinam rerun inhians,

      Gr. D. 162, 32.
begetting of children,
procreation, production
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  • Genitiuus

    is gestrýnendlic: mid þám casu byð geswutelod ǽlces (ðinges gestreón,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 22, 13.

  • Ðá ðe for bearnes gestreóne hǽmed begáð,

      Hml. Th. i. 148, 22: ii. 94, 3 : 590, 23.

  • For bearna gestreóne,

      Solil. H. 36, 8,
of material or non-material objects , what is got by effort,
gain, profit, advantage, acquisition
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  • Ðincþ þé ꝥ lytel gestreón . . . þætte þeós wiþerweardnes . . . þá mód þe geopenaþ ðínra getreówra freónda, Bt. 20; F. 72, II. Manigra folca gestreónes hié wieóldon

    labores populorum possederunt.

      Past. 391, 4.

  • Gestreó(ne)

    questu,

      An. Ox. 8, 69.

  • Gestrión

    lucrum,

      Kent. Gl. 431.

  • Þá unriht-wísan déman him of hira ceasterwarena forþrycnesse gestreón gaderiað,

      Ll. Lbmn. 475, 23.

  • Hé sécð ðisses middangeardes gestreón (lucrum) . . . Hé scolde his gestreón

    (lucrá)

    tóweorpan,
      Past. 55, 9-11.

  • Gestreón

    emolumenta, i. lucra,

      An. Ox. 557 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 70.

  • Gestreónu

    lucra,

      Scint. 76, 12.

  • Hé wilniað ðisses middangeardes gestreóna,

      Past. 331, 21.

  • Godes ðonces, nals ná for fraceðlecum gestreónum

    (turpis lucri gratia),

      137, 21.
  • Of unryhtum gestreónum and of mándædum. . 343, 4 : Bl. H. 25, 6.

  • Ágife hé Drihtne þone teóþan dǽl for his ðǽm eorþlicum gestreónum,

      49, 30: 51, 8.

  • Gestreónum

    compendiis.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 61.

  • Oðer ondréd ðæt hé forlure sprecende ðá gestrión ðe hé on ðǽre swígean geðencan meahte

    iste ne tacitae contemplationis lucra loquens perderet,

      Past. 49, 20.
interest, usury, revenue
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  • Of gestrióne

    fenore,

      Kent. Gl. 1046.

  • Gestreón

    reditus

    (pl.),
      An. Ox. 4832.
possession, property, wealth
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  • Gestrión

    patrimonium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 78.

  • Ðá ðe hira ágen nyllað sellan. . . geðencen ðæt ðiós eorðe, ðe him ðæt gestreón of cóm . . . ,

      Past. 335, 10.

  • Monegum men genihtsumað þisse worlde gestreón æt his ende,

      Bl. H. 97, 25.

  • Gestreónes, yrfes

    patrimonii,

      An. Ox. 3151.
  • Welan, fæderes gestreónes, 3604.
  • Þ hé of his yldrena gestreóne hine sylfne fercian móte. Hml. S. 23, 597.

  • Hé æfter him tó eallum his gestreónum féng haereditalem ejus adsumsit, Ors. 5, 13; S. 244, 23. IV a. of costly things, as collective, treasures, wealth, treasure. Cf. ge-streónfull; I. 2 :-- Hé begeat Alexandriam, and mid hiere gestreóne hé gewelgade Rómeburg

    Alexandria potitus est, et Roma opibus ejus aucta est,

      Ors. 5, 13; S. 246, 36.

  • Earme synt þises middangeardes gestreón . . . Hwǽr synt þá welegan þisse weorolde ? hwǽr is nú heora gold ? Wálá ꝥ for swá medmiclum gestreóne hí synt lǽdde tó swá heardum tyntergum,

      Ll. Th. ii. 396, 25-31.

  • Gold and godweb, Iósephes gestreón,

      Exod. 587 : 6. 2037.

  • Gestrión (gistrión goldes, R.)

    thesaurum,

      Mk. L. 10, 21.

  • Þára gestreóna

    gazarum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 42.

  • Nǽnig man on worlde tó ðæs mycelne welan nafað, ne tó ðon módelico gestreón,

      Bl. H. 111, 24.

  • Æðelinga gestreón, frætwe and fǽt gold,

      B. 1920: 3167.

  • Gestrión,

      Met. i. 23.

  • Þás lǽnan gestreón, ídle ǽhtwelan,

      Ap. 83.

  • Gestrióna

    thesauros,

      Mt. L. 6, 19.

  • Gestreóno (-e. R.)

    pecunias,

      Mk. L. 10, 23.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-streón.” 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/49825.

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