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Take here ge-tinge in Dict., and add: I. in a good sense
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  • Getinge

    dissertas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 28, 24.
of persons,
skilful with the tongue, elegant in speech, eloquent, witty
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  • Getincge

    facetus i. facundus (poeta ),

      An. Ox. 13.

  • Dumbra manna tungan beóð swíðe getinge

    aperta erit lingua mutorum

    (Isaiah
      35, 6), Hml. Th. ii. 16, 19.
  • Ne weorþeð on worulde ǽnig wordsnotera ne on wordum getingra þonne Antecríst wyrðeþ. Wlfst. 54, 21.

  • Hé wæs se getingesta wer

    erat vir eloquentissimus.

      Gr. D. 180, 9.
of speech
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  • Getinge

    lepida (sermonum series ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 84: 52, 40.

  • Þǽre getyngan lepida (libelli textum

    lepida

    urbanitatis facundia digestum,
      Ald. 80, 32), 88, 38: 50, 43.

  • Mid getincgere

    urbana (verborum facundia fretus

    ),
      An. Ox. 1501.

  • Getyngere

    urbano (libello ),

      4, 88.

  • Seó tunge þe ǽr hæfde getinge sprǽce,

      Wlfst. 148, 1.
in a technical sense, rhetorical; used substantively,
a rhetorician
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  • Getincum (tingcum, Hpt. Gl. 460, 41) lárum

    rhetoricis disciplinis,

      An. Ox. 2304.

  • Getincne

    rhetorice artis participem,

    3357.

  • Getincgum rhetoribus, 3096. ¶ in a list of the arts mechanica is glossed by getingce cræ[ft] which would be more appropriate as a gloss to

    rhetorica

    (v. ge-tynglic),
      An. Ox. 3122.
skilful, v. ge-tyngnes; III
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  • Þá forewittigan ł getincge glǽw[nesse]

    sagacissimam, i. peritissimam industriam (animi exercere ),

      An. Ox. 70.
Etymology
[II. in a bad sense, speaking much, talkative; linguosus. v. Dict.]
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v. un-getynge.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-tynge.” 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/50318.

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