ge-hiwian
to form ⬩ fashion ⬩ make ⬩ transform ⬩ transfigure ⬩ formāre ⬩ plasmāre ⬩ fingĕre ⬩ fĭgūrāre ⬩ transfĭgūrāre ⬩ to seem ⬩ appear ⬩ pretend ⬩ sĭmŭlāre
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Ne lufa ðú ðínne broðor mid gehiwodre heortan do not love thy brother with a dissembling heart, Basil admn. 5; Norm. 46, 4
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ge-tyngnes
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Hé ús selð micle getyngnesse and wlitige sprǽce ymb sóðfæsðnesse tó cýðanne nobis luce veritatis plena eloquia subministrat, Past. 369, 14. Hí eallra gereorda getingnesse hæfdon they had skill to speak in all tongues, Btwk. 214, 32.
be
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Eallu ðing be dæges leóhte ( luce adhuc diei) gefyllede sýn, R. . Ben. 66, 8. 8. Add Gif hé déð dǽdbóte be his synnum, Angl. xi. 114, 61. Sind fíf onlícnessa be hellegryre, Verc.
Linked entry: bi-wrítan
wǽr-fæst
Faithful,
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Wǽrfæstra wera ( Abraham and Lot ), 113, 34; Gen. 1897. of things Ðǽr sceal lufu uncer wǽrfæst wunian, Exon. Th. 173, 19; Gú. 1163
slídan
To slide, slip, fall ⬩ to slide, glide ⬩ to make a mistake, to fail, err ⬩ to fall into an unhappy condition ⬩ to pass away, be transitory or perishable
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Fleóg ðú wesan ealdor slídendes plegan (labentis ludi) Lchdm. i. Iviii, 2.
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spelian
To act as the representative of another ⬩ to represent ⬩ to take, or stand in, the place of another
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Se abbod, for ðig ðe hé Godes gespelia is (quia uices Christi in monasterio creditur agere), sig hláford geháten ... for ðæs lufe ðe hé spelaþ for the love of him whom he represents, R. Ben. 114, 24. Næs Isaac ofslegen ac se ramm hine spelode, Homl.
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ÁÞ
an OATH ⬩ a swearing ⬩ juramentum
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secga me sǽde, and ic sylf to sóþe talige, ðæt he mines orfes þeóf wǽre' The oath of him, who takes his [own] property, that he does it neither for hatred nor for envy :-- By the Lord, I accuse not N. neither for hatred nor for envy, nor for unlawful lust
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cúþ-líce
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Clemens Dionisium him cúðlíce tó lét and mid lufe geheóld, Hml. Th. i. 560, 1. Wé mágon cúðlíce tó him clypian, swá swá tó úrum bréðer, 260, 7. Martha spræc cúðlíce tó ðám Hǽlende, ii. 440, 5.
ge-þryccan
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Substitute: p. ge-þrycte, ge-þryhte; pp. ge-þrycced, ge-þryced, ge-þryct. to press Ðá hand geðrycð ( premit ) sió incunde lufu, Past. 389, 13. to press down, oppress, depress Ðæt gesuinc hira ágenra welera hié geðrycð labor labiorum ipsorum operiet,
hrace
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Fram eallum þám þigenum þe hracan oþþ innoþ tó miclum luste getýhþ ab omnibus quae ventris et gutturis provocant appetitum, R. Ben. 138, 14. Hracan fauces, Wrt. Voc. ii. 39, 56. of places, a gorge, narrow outlet at the upper end of a valley(?)
lǽnan
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Ys forboden ꝥ hé his feoh, ne his ǽhta ( pecuniam suam vel possessiones ) tó nánum unrihtum gafole ne lǽne; ꝥ is ꝥ hé hine máran ne bidde tó ágyfanne þonne hé him ǽr lǽnde; ac for lufe lǽne gehwá óðrum his feoh and his ǽhta, 194, 15-19. to grant Se góda
lyre
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Hé þolode lyre (jacturam) eallra þára þinga þe on þám scipe wǽron, 141, 13. loss of a living creature by death Hé nolde ábúgan fram Godes lufe for bærna lyre, Hml. S. 16, 48.
un-wísdóm
folly ⬩ stupidity ⬩ ignorance
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Sóna swá hí heora mód áwendaþ from Gode, swá weorþaþ hí áblende mid unwísdóme ubi oculos a summae luce veritatis ad inferiora dejecerint, mox inscitiae nube caligant, Bt. 40, 7.; Fox 242, 31.
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grénnes
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Hé wile forlǽtan dǽre lufan grénnisse, and forseárian on ðǽre ungeðwǽrnesse qui separantur a uiriditate dilectionis arefiunt, Past. 359, 15, Ne næfð ǽnig bóh grénnysse (printed spen-; uiriditatem ) gódes weorces, sé þe ná wunað on wyrtruman sóðre lufe
god-spell
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Lucas sǽde ... wé nú gehýrdon þis hálige godspel beforan ús rǽdan, 15, 3-30. Gregorius trahtnode þis godspel ( the parable of the talents ), Hml. Th. ii. 550, 1
middan-geard
the middle dwelling ⬩ the earth ⬩ world ⬩ the world and they that dwell therein ⬩ mankind
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A.) leóht vos estis lux mundi, Mt. Kmbl. 5, 14. Ða hwatestan men ealles ðises middangeardes, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 48, 6. Hú gesǽlig seó forme eld wæs ðises middangeardes, Bt. 15; Fox 48, 3.
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þeów-dóm
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Is óðer ðeówt neádunge búton lufe, óðer is sylfwilles mid lufe, se gedafenaþ Godes ðeówum, Homl. Th. ii. 524, 3. in the more favourable sense For lufan ðæs godcundan ðeówdómes, Bd. 4, 23; S. 593, 31. Godes þeówdómes, Blickl. Homl. 23, 18.
be-tweoh
Between, BETWIXT, among, amid, in the midst ⬩ inter, in medio
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Hǽðe stent betuh Winedum and Seaxum and Angle Haddeby stands in the midst of the Winedi, Saxons and Angles, Ors. 1, 19; Bos. 21, 30. acc Swá lamb betweox wulfas sicut agnos inter lupos, Lk. Bos. 10, 3.
treówian
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Him ꝥ ha treoweð on, Kath. 1327, note.] þeo luue . . . þu treowest hire, Misc. 94, 42. Putifar trewið his wiwes tale, Gen. and Ex. 2037
Linked entry: trýwian
brýce
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Sé ðe wíf hæfð for lícumlícre frófre, and ðeáh for ðǽm bryce (v. brúcan,(I c)) and for ðǽre lufe hine ne áwent from bettrum weorcum qui sic per uxorem carnali consolatione utitur, ut tamen numquam a melioris intentionis rectitudine ejus amore flectatur