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Wright's OE grammar
§344;
Add: [a wk. gew. gewritena occurs,
    Ælfc. T. Grn. 1, 16
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  • Gewrit caraxatio, Wrt. Voc. i. 46, 63:

    scriptura,

      75, 8.
writing.
written language
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  • Gewrite grammate (facundo

    grammate,

      Ald. 195, 22), Wrt. Voc. ii. 41, 47.

  • Bringað hý Gode on gewrite ealle þæt wé gedóð,

      Wlfst. 233, 7.

  • Hí þurh ǽrendrakan and þurh gewrite atíwdon hwí hí ðǽr beón ne mihton,

      Chr. 1074; P. 204, 6.

  • Hé áwrát þára muneca regol mid heálicum gewrite and mid torhtum wordum

    scripsit monachorum regulam, discretione praecipuum, sermone luculentam,

      Gr. D. 175, 3.

  • Monige cúðon Englisc gewrit árǽdan,

      Past. 7, 17.

  • On gewrit settan

    to put into writing,

      Ll. Th. i. 58, 22.
a number of written characters
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  • Þis mon sceal wrítan on húsldisce . . . + + + A + C D + . . . In principio . . . sunt. Þweah þonne ꝥ gewrit mid hálig*-*wætre of ðám disce on þone drenc,

      Lch. ii. 136, 3-9.
a writing.
a written statement, passage from a book
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  • Ꝥ heáflice gewrit wearð fordílegod, and se sárlica cwide eft oncerred . . .

    'Terra es tu . . ,'

      Bl. H. 123, 6.

  • Æftera gewritt wítgiunges

    secundum scribturam prophetiae

    (Zech.
      9, 9), Mt. p. 18, 16.
of official, formal documents.
of law or jurisprudence
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  • Gif þǽr bið gewrit oþþe gewitnes

    si scriptum intersit testamenti et testes,

      Ll. Th. i. 88, 18.

  • Wilhelm cyng grét ealla þá þe þys gewrit tó cymð ofer eall Engla-land,

      489, 2.

  • Beháten gewrit

    pollicita rescripsio,

      An. Ox. 5455.

  • Hér geswutelað on þison gewrite hú Æðelréd kyning geúðe ꝥ Æðeríces cwyde standan móste,

      Cht. Th. 539, 31: Ll. Th. i. 270, 8.

  • Gewrit

    cautionem

    (Lk.
      16, 6), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 63: 103, 29: 17, 55.

  • Ðissa gewrita syndon þreó,

      Cht. Th. 541, 22.

  • Mid gewritum

    testamento,

      Ors. 5, 13; S. 244, 23.

  • Áht þæs þe on úrum gewritum stent

    anything in our (Athelstan's) regulations,

      Ll. Th. i. 236, 32: 240, 18.

  • Wríte man manega gewrita be þissum,

      Ll. Th. i. 278, 8.
a list or
catalogue
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  • Hæbbe se abbod gewrit (

    brevem

    ) ealra þǽra ǽhta,
      R. Ben. 56, 7.
a letter
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  • Cartena, gewrita

    scedarum,

      An. Ox. 2308.

  • Sigewulf hine befrán gelóme feorran mid gewritum be gehwylcum cnottum,

      Angl. vii. 2, 13.

  • Þá gewritu and þá word þe se arceƀ mé fram þám pápan bróhte,

      Cht. E. 229, 23.
text of an agreement
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  • Þǽre siuoðlican dǽde þysses gemetes gewrit is

    cuius synodicae actionis huius*-*modi textus est,

      Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 373, 8.
of literary writing,
a book, treatise
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  • Gewrites

    fa[s] ti,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 82: 37, 25.

  • Þú bǽde mé oft Engliscra gewritena,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 1, 16.

  • Gewrita

    litterarum,

      An. Ox. 2008.

  • Ic geseah mycel gedwyld on manegum Engliscum bócum þe ungelǽrede menn tó micclum wísdóme tealdan . . ., and mé ofhreów þæt hí næfdon þá godspellican láre on heora gewritum, Hml. Th. i. 2, 23. ¶

    books

    dealing with a subject under notice :-- Þæs ðe gewritu secgað,
      Chr. 973; P. 118, 19.

  • Gif ǽnig mon sié þe on gewritun findan mæge þæt Ianas dura belocen wurde,

      Ors. 3, 5; S. 106, 8. (3 a) of the books of the Bible; as in holy writ.
of the canonical books,
the Scriptures
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  • On hálgum gewrietum

    in sacra eloquio,

      Past. 385, 31.

  • On gewritum (-wurittum, L.)

    in scribturis,

      Mt. 21, 42.

  • Gé nyton þa hálgan gewritu (giwriotu, R., gewuritto, L.)

    non scientes scripturas,

      Mk. 12, 24.

  • Ðá gewuriotto,

      Mt. L. 22, 29.

  • Ðá gewriotu (gewriotto,

      L.), Lk. R. 24, 32.
of the Apocrypha
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  • Tweónendlicra gewrita

    Apocrifarum,

      An. Ox. 5103.
Similar entries
v. friþ-gewrit, frum-gewrit, geán-gewrit, gén-gewrit, rǽden-gewrit; dirn-gewritu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-writ.” 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/50586.

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