Cealca ceaster
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
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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]
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eald-fæder
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
EÁ
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
and-git
the understanding ⬩ the intellect ⬩ intellectus ⬩ understanding ⬩ knowledge ⬩ cognizance ⬩ intellectus ⬩ cognitio ⬩ agnitio ⬩ sense ⬩ meaning ⬩ one of the senses ⬩ sensus
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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
a likeness ⬩ image ⬩ resemblance ⬩ similitudo ⬩ imago ⬩ a parable ⬩ proverb ⬩ parabola ⬩ proverbium
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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
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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
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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
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 world ⬩ to this life ⬩ in this world ⬩ to this point ⬩ hither and thither ⬩ to 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
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