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  • Geðanc

    cogitatio,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 42, 37.

  • Mód vel geþanc

    animus,

    33.

  • Geþancge

    cogitatione,

      An. Ox. 56, 3.
a thought, what a person thinks
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  • Ne wyrð þǽr bedíglod þæt dígleste geþanc þe sénig mon ǽfre geþóhte,

      Wlfst. 25, 14.

  • Healde hé hine ðæt hine his ágen geðanc ne biswíce

    ne se imago cogitationis illudet,

      Past. 57, 22.

  • Þá þóhte ic þæt . . . , ac mín látteów andwyrde þǽrrihte mínum geðance,

      Hml. Th. ii. 350, 14.

  • Worda and dǽda, þeáwa and geþonca,

      Cri. 1584: El. 1286.
  • Gif hié synna fremmað þeáwum and geþancum. Gen. 2413 : El. 312.

  • Ic þæt ne forhycge heortan geþoncum,

      Ph. 552 : Gú. 1227.
  • þá módhwatan on geþancum,
      Dan. 358.

  • Hí mid geþoncum

    (thoughtfully, wisely)

    þeóden heredon,
      Az. 68.

  • God gesyhþ ǽlces monnes geþanc and his word, and his dǽda tóscǽt,

      Bt. 40, 7; F. 242, 32.

  • Geþancu

    (cogitationes)

    horige gebed mid fæstene út ánýtt,
      Scint. 36, 12.
a thought, purpose, intention
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  • Hwilcan geþance mæg ǽnig man ǽfre geþencan on his móde ꝥ hé tó sácerdan heáfod áhylde . . . and sóna hí siþþan scyrde,

      Ll. Th. i. 334, 32 : 28.

  • God geseah his geðanc, þæt hé ne éhte geleáffulra manna ðurh andan,

      Hml. Th. i. 390, 5.

  • Hé hæfde gód geþanc,

      By. 13.

  • Beóð tóstencte geþancu (cogitationes) þár þár nys geþeaht

    without counsel purposes are disappointed

    (A.
      V.) Prov. 15,22), Scint. 199, 11: (A. V. Prov. 20, 18.), 13.

  • Geðancas,

      Ps. Th. 91, 4.
s device, design, what is thought out
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  • þ æ hié láð þurh þæs wráðan geþanc weorðan sceoldon, Gen. 631. þurh dyrne geþanc

    by dark design

    , 532.

  • Gelér*-*eddum geðancum

    eruditis cogitationibus

    ; of witty inventions, (A.
      V.) Kent. Gl. 240.

  • Leáse on geþoncum,

      Cri. 1120.

  • Drihten firenfullra fǽcne geðancas tóweorpeð,

      Ps. Th. 128, 3.
thought, faculty or
act of thinking, mind
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  • Wác bið þ æt geðanc on crístenum men, gyf hé ne cann understandan þurh rihtne geleáfan þæne þe hine gesceóp. Wlfst. 20, 9.

  • Wearð him hýrra hyge and on heortan geþanc máran módsefan þonne gemet wǽre,

      Dan. 491.
  • Gleáw geþances, 743.

  • Nis mé on geþance vel on móde

    non mihi est cordi,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 54, 47.

  • Gif hé ǽr on ðaes ofermódan engles wísan innan his geðance (ingeðonce, v. l.) of Godes gesiehðe ne áfeólle

    nisi more suferbientis angeli a con*-*spectu conditoris príus intus aversione mentis caderet,

      Past. 359, 1.

  • Gehwá on geþance healde,

      Ll. Th. i. 424, 20. þríste on geþance, An. 237: El. 267.
  • Gleáw in geþance, 807.

  • Þá þe þurh ánfeald geðanc God lufiað,

      Wlfst. 24, 12.

  • Hæbban fæstrǽde geþanc tó úrum Drihtne,

      101, 23 : Hml. S. 8, 20.
    þurh gleáwne geþanc hé ǽrest hearpan hlyn áwehte, Gen. 1078: Dan. 536.

  • Wec þú cléne hiortan in mé, mód-swíðne geþanc,

      Ps. C. 89.

  • Blinde on geþoncum,

      Cri. 1127.

  • In adverbial phrases. Cf. Romance adverbs from Lat.

    mente

    :-- Folc Drihten herað holdlice, hróre geþance,
      Ps. Th. 101, 16.

  • Ic þé andette holde geþance,

      118, 7.

  • Ic þæt wénde þríste geþonce, Jul. 358. IV a.

    thought, thinking

    about something :-- þǽr nǽfre unnytte sprǽce nǽron, ne geþanc goldes and seolfres,
      Hml. S. 23 b, 88.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-danc cogitatio, intentio, sollertia, intellectus, anima.]
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v. breóst-geþanc, in-geþanc, mód-geþanc, un-geþanc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þanc.” 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/50056.

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