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an entrance, a place or
way by which one enters, a doorway, vestibule
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  • Seó byrgen is on Hierusalem ... Se ingang is eástan in, and on ðá swíðran healfe þǽm ingange is stǽnen bedd,

      Shrn. 69, 2-4.
  • Æðelic ingong ... duru ormǽte,

      Cri. 308.
  • Bið se torr þyrel, ingong geopenad,

      Jul. 403.
  • Æt ánes scræfes inngange (cf. an sumes scræfes dura,

      Bl. H. 199, 16), Hml. Th. i. 502, 16.
  • Fram þǽre heortan inngange (

    ostio

    ),
      Gr. D. 35, 18.
  • In þám ingange (cafortúne, v.l.) hire húses

    in hospitii sui vestibulo,

      69, 26.
  • On þǽre cyricean inngange

    in ecclesiae ingressu,

      97, 33.
  • Tó ingangum

    ad fauces, ad introitum,

      An. Ox. 50, 47.
an entering, a going into
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  • Inngong Godes mínes

    ingressus Dei mei.

      Ps. Srt. 67, 25.
  • Hí ne dorston þæt hálige hús mid ingange (

    by entering

    ) geneósían.
      Hml. Th. i. 504, 10.
an entering upon action, a beginning, first step
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  • Suá mon sceal on ðǽm úpáhæfenum monnum ðone fruman and ðone ingong ðǽre ðreátunga gemetgian

    ipsa in elatis invectionis exordia sunt temperanda,

      Past. 303, 18.
    [Þis was his ingang, of his útgang ne cunne wé iett nóht seggon, Chr. 1127; P. 258, 27.]
right or
permission to enter,
the right of a person to enter and remain in a place
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  • Æt heldore þǽr fǽge gǽstas æfter swyltcwale sécan onginnað ingong in þæt atule húse,

      Gú. 534.
admission to a religious house as one of its members
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  • Wið ðan ðe mín wiif benuge innganges ... Gif hláford nylle hire mynsterlífes geunnan,

      C.D. i. 310, 29.
  • Hé læg fíf dagas beforan ðæs mynstres geate, swá hé ne æt ne dranc, ac hé bæd ingonges. Þá underféng se abbod hine on ꝥ mynster, ðá geleornede hé his saltere on feówer móndum,

      Shrn. 109, 5.
  • Cf. on-gang.
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