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Cealca ceaster

(n.)
Grammar
Cealca ceaster, ceastre; f.

The chalk city

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The chalk city Camden thinks it is Tadcaster, in Yorkshire idem, ut opinatur clarus Camdenus, quod hodie Tadcaster in agro Eboracensi, sic olim vocatum a ealce ibidem copiose effossa, Som. Ben. Lye

searu-geþræc

(n.)
Grammar
searu-geþræc, es; n.
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A store of things in which art is displayed Seón and sécean searogeþræc (the dragon's hoard), wundur under wealle, Beo. Th. 6196; B. 3102 [cf. geþræce apparatu, Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 72]

Linked entry: ge-þræc

eald-fæder

(n.)
Grammar
eald-fæder, an ancestor; in pl.
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Þú forðfærst tó þínum ealdfæderum tu ibis ad patres tuos. Gen. 15, 15. Swá hé behét heora ealdfæderum ( patribus eorum ), Jos. 21, 41

ge-leáfleás

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Nis nán þincg swá láð þám geleáfleásum deófle swá ꝥ hine man gebidde bealdlíce tó Gode, Hml. S. 13, 50. Ic eom begoten mid deáwe . . . and þá geleáfleásan forswǽlede, 7, 231. Add

on-geweorc

(n.)
Grammar
on-geweorc, (?), es; n.
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Th.) þínum in factura tua, Ps. Rdr. 91. 5

weóce

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For third passage substitute Þá gefyllde hé mid wætere ealle þǽre cyrcean ciellan and sette weócon (tapor, v.l.) onmiddan ( in media papyrum posuit), and þá mid fýre ontennde, Gr. D. 44, 15

GREÁT

(adj.)
Grammar
GREÁT, adj.
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Tú hund greátes hláfes and þridde smales two hundred great loaves and a third of small, Th. Chart. 158, 25. God him send ufan greáte hagolstánas God cast down upon them great hailstones, Jos. 10, 11: Cd. 19; Th. 24, 27; Gen. 384.

god-fæder

(n.)
Grammar
god-fæder, m.
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God the Father, the Divine Father; Deus ille Pater, Divinus Pater Crist ys word and tunge God-Fæder; þurh hine synt ealle þincg geworht Christ is the word and tongue of God the Father; through Him are all things made, Ps. Th. 44, 2.

an-bídian

(v.)
Grammar
an-bídian, l. an-bidian (and-),
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On plegstówe andbidian, Lch. iii. 206, 16. to wait for (gen. ) Þín andbidað þæt éce forwyrd eternal perdition waits for you, Hml. Th. i. 593, 9. Hé anbidode þæs ealdormannes tócymes, Hml. S. 11, 64. Wé andbidodon ðín, Hml. Th. ii. 172, 22.

ge-bregdan

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ǽlc þǽra þinga þe þú wið God ágylte, Wlfst. 249, 3. to feign Heó gebrǽd hí seóce (cf.

god-fæder

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Ic eom þín godfæder and þú mín goddohtor, Hml. A. 178, 297. Ðá unsprecendan cild beóð gehealdene on ðam fulluhte ðurh geleáfan þæs fæder and þǽre móder and þæs foresprecendan godfæder, Hml. Th. ii. 116, 16; 52, 2.

liccian

(v.)
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Swá swá hundas lapodon Naboðes blód, swá hí sceolon lapian and liccian þín blód in loco hoc, in quo linxe-runt canes sanguinem Naboth, lambent sanguinem tuam, 210. Liccigan lincxere (v. Aid. 207, 23), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 75.

(n.)
Grammar
EÁ, often indeclinable in the sing, but eás is sometimes found in gen; and é, ǽ, eǽin dat; pl. nom. acc. eá, eán; gen. eá; dat. eáum, eám, eán; f; ǽ

indecl. f. Running water, a stream, river, water flŭvius, flūmen, torrens, aqua

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;indecl. f. Running water, a stream, river, water ; flŭvius, flūmen, torrens, aqua Eá of dúne water from the hill, Menol. Fox 520; Gn. C. 30. Seó feorþe eá ys geháten Eufrates flŭvius quartus est Euphrātes, Gen. 2, 14: Bd. 3, 24; S. 556, 34, 46. On twá

Linked entries: ǽ é

and-git

(n.; part.)
Grammar
and-git, -giet, -gyt, -get, [ond-, on-], es; n. [and, git = get, p. of gitan to get] .

the understandingthe intellectintellectusunderstandingknowledgecognizanceintellectuscognitioagnitiosensemeaningone of the sensessensus

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the understanding, the intellect; intellectus Þurh ðæt andgit, man understent ealle ða þing, ðe he gehýrþ oððe gesihþ by the understanding, man comprehends [understands] all the things, which he hears or sees, Homl. Th. i. 288, 21.

ge-lícnes

(n.)
Grammar
ge-lícnes, -ness, e; f.

a likenessimageresemblancesimilitudoimagoa parableproverbparabolaproverbium

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Ǽlc man hæfþ þreó þing on him sylfum untodǽledlíce and togædere wyrcende, swá swá God cwæþ, ðáðá he ǽrest mann gesceóp. He cwæþ, 'Uton gewyrcean mannan to úre gelícnysse.' And he worhte ðá Adam to his anlícnysse.

efestung

(n.)
Grammar
efestung, e; f.
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Haste Swá þæt nánra þinga mid ǽnigre efestinge mannes hí mihton beón undón ut dissolvi tam concite nulla hominum festinatione potuissent, Gr. D. 164, 15. Mid oefestunge cum festinantia, Ps. Srt. 77, 33

ge-dréfan

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Ðás þing geseónde hé wearð gedréfed, Chr. 1087 ; P. 223, 16. Ðá hí gesáwon þæt hí wurdon þá gedréfede (-droefed, L., -drýfed, R.), Mt. 14, 26: Bl. H. 17, 2. fear, anxiety, sorrow, &c. Mé bróga þín gedréfde, Ps. Th. 87, 16.

styrigend-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
styrigend-líc, adj.
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Hé styrigendlíces nán þincg findan ne mihte, Of styrigendlícum mobilibus, Germ God gesceóp eall libbende fisccinn and stirigendlíce omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, Gen. 1, 21

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wischere

(n.)
Grammar
wischere, (?), es; m.

A wizard

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A wizard Mannum is tó witenne ðæt manega drýmen maciaþ menigfealde dydrunga þurh deófles cræft, swá swá wischeras dóð, and bedydriaþ menn, swylce hí sóðlíce swylc þincg dón, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 466

hider

to this worldto this lifein this worldto this pointhither and thitherto and fro

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Hé útlændisce hider in tihte, Chr. 959; P. 115, 12. where relation is expressed Man hálgode Trumwine Pihtum, for þan hý hýrdon þá hider, Chr. 681; P. 39, ii. to this world, to this life Ne lǽt hé his nánwuht of þís middangearde mid him máre þonne hé

Linked entry: hider-cyme