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ge-wyrd

  • noun [ neuter ]
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ge-wyrd, fate.
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  • Conditio, i. status, natura, sors, regula, lex gescæp, gewyrd, gescæft, gebyrd, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 62. [

    In view of the Latin words (regula, lex) in this gloss perhaps the passage

      Men. 66, given in Dict. under
below.]
fortune
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  • Gewyrdes

    fortunae

    ,
      An. Ox. 2628.
one of the Fates
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  • Gewyrda

    Parcarum

    ,
      An. Ox. 5480.
what happens, an event. Cf. ge-weorþan ;
3
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  • Hér sagað ymb ðás mǽran gewyrd þe tó þyssum dæge gewearð, þætte ælmihtig Dryhten sylfa on þás world ácenned wæs . . . Be þysse gewyrde þe wé tódæg weordiað ealle Godes hálige sǽdon, Verc. Först. 96, 3-II. Gewyrde (

    secundum) historiam,

      An. Ox. 8, 15 a (v. ge-wyrdelic;
, gewyrd-wrítere). Ge-wyrda fata, i. fortuna, eventus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 28. Cf. Gewyrd fatus, ta, tum (ut rerum tibi
fata latentia solvant,
    Aid. 153, 9), An. Ox. 18 b, 32.
what is made, an effect. Cf. ge-weorþan ; I. 2
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  • Gewyrde

    effectibus (operum)

    ,
      An. Ox. II, 124.
what happens to a person or thing,
a condition assigned by fate
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  • Fore giwyrd líchomes foerde wé ongeton

    from the condition of mortality imposed upon the flesh we know she has departed;

    quam pro conditione carnis migrasse cognovi-mus,
      Rtl. 66, 37.

  • Gewyrdum fatis (cf. gewyrd[um] fatis (si hoc carneum animae ergastulum ante fatis crudescentibus non

    obierit

    ,
      Ald. 80, 17), An. Ox. 5479), Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 26.
what pleases a person, what seems fit, pleasure, v. ge-weorþan; V. l a [cf. ? O. H. Ger. ge-wurt oblectatio, delectatio]
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  • Hit is of heora ágenre gewyrde ꝥ; ꝥ hié secgað

    what they say is of their own good pleasure

    ,
      Ors. 3, 9; S. 126, 33.
what is agreed upon, a condition, stipulation, v. ge-weorþan ;
i b
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  • Conditio gecwide vel gewyrd (or perhaps to be taken under gewyrd speech?) stipulatio

    gehát,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 54.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wyrd.” 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/50632.

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