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rǽd-wita

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Betwyx þǽre écan úplicum sibbe ríce rǽdwitan rodera weardas inter aetherium coelesti pace senatum, Dóm. L. 298

tó-liþian

(v.)
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Add: to relax þæs módes sceát byð tóleoðod (-liðod, v.l.) mentis laxatur sinus, Gr. D. 173, 9.

un-leás

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Þæt ic ongæt be Theophania . . . swá swá mé cýðdon hit manige unleáse men quod de Theophanio multis attestantibus agnovi, Gr. D. 301, 17. Se unleásesta wer vir veracissimus, 193, 10

wǽta

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wǽta, wǽte;
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</b> add :-- Sume men of hiora scome þá wǽtan for þǽm nýde þigdon vidimus plerosque pudore amisso suam urinam uexatos ultimis necessitafibus haurientes, Nar. 9, 22

wæter-gesceaft

(n.)
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wæter-gesceaft, e; f.
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The watery element Swá ꝥ wæter wæs standende and beleác þá duru þǽre cyrican, efne swylce seó wætergesceaft (wæteres gesceaft) wǽre onwænded in fæstes wáges staðolfæstnesse sic stans aqua ecclesiae januam clausit, ac si illud elementum liquidum in soliditatem

ander-gilde

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In repayment, in compensation Ne weorðe ðé nǽfre tó þæs wá, ðæt ðú ne wéne betran andergilde never let things come to so ill a pass for you, that you don't hope for better times to make amends, Prov. K. 41. (Cf. án- gilde, ¶.)

Linked entry: un-andergilde

gád

(n.)

a goad.

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Derigendlic bið ðé þæt þú spurne ongeán þá gáde (durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare ). Gif se oxa spyrnð ongeán ðá gád, hit dereð him sylfum, Hml. Th. i. 390, 9: 386, 9. Add

á-wendedlic

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Mobilia (pronomina), þæt is áwendedlice (áwendendlice-endlice, v. l.) fram cynne tó cynne, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 94, 13: 20, 3, 9. Add

be-beódan

'to give . . . generally,'to orderenjoin to commitcommendto offer to the gods to commit into (on, in)to announce

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Ic sylle þæt þú ǽr bebude, Ps. Th. 39, 7. Hé bebeád his suna þæt hé tówearp þæt templ, Ors. 6, 7; S. 262, 19. Hé bebeád þæt nán crísten mon ne cóme on his hiérede, 6, 30; S. 282, 29. Hwæt yfela bebeád Drihten ǽfre, Bl. H. 41, 2.

ge-biddan

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Grn. 12, 35. to ask a person for something þæt þú ne þurfe mé týðian þæs þe þú gebeden eart, Gr. D. 28, 9. to ask for something for a person Gebide þé miltsunge, Hml. Th. ii. 414, 12.

ge-leáfa

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Heó áhte trumne geleáfan tó þǽm Ælmihtigan, Jud. 6: 345. Hé getrymede heora geleáfan, Bl. H. 17, 8. Gif wé willaþ on Drihten gelýfan . . . wé sceolon þone geleáfan mid gódum dǽdum gefyllan, 23, 10.

be-fæstan

to fix,to place in securityto fix in the mindimplantto fix by promise or agreementto pledgeto committo commit to a person's chargeto commit to a placeto setbetake to an occupationto commendrecommend,to make acceptableto trust

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Þæt hé befæste þæt pund, þe him God befæste, sumum óðrum men, Ǽlfc. Gr. 2, 2, 26.

dógor

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Wið þan ðé mín wiif þǽr benuge innganges swǽ mid mínum líce swǽ sioððan yferran dógre ( either with my body or afterwards at a later date ), Cht. Th. 470, 37. Æfter tuǽm dógrum ł dagum post biduum, Mt. L. 26, 2: p. 20, 1; Mk. L. 14, 1.

on-fón

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. ) -Þæs wínes steápes onféhð (sé) þe hé ann, Ps.

dón

(v.)
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S. 3, 123. with clause Gif se sácerd déð þæt þæt folc syngie, Lev. 4, 3. Hé dyde þæt gé dwelodon, Deut. 13, 5. Dóð þæt þæt tolc sitte, Hml.

án-rǽd

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Tó þám ánrǽde þæt hé ne áwácað, Wlfst. 97, 6. Wæs ꝥ cild snotor and ánrǽde, Shrn. 127, 12: R. Ben. 108, 21. Ánréd constans, Kent. Gl. 1153. Hé hine hét þæt hé ne tweóde, ac þæt hé wǽre ánrǽd, Guth. 30, 7. Eádgár se æþela and se ánrǽda cyning.

firding

Grammar
firding, (-ung).

military servicefightingmarchingan expeditionmilitiatroopsarmamentmilitary forces

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Geceás man þá twégen cnihtas . . . tó þǽre fyrdunga, Hml.

blind

(adj.)

darkdimblind

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Þæs blindan lustes. Bt. 7, 2; F. 18, 3. Blindre fyrhto ceca formidine, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 81. of a place, without light, dark On blindum scræfe in carcere caeca, Dóm. L. 230. Sécað án blind cweartern, þǽr nán leóht ne mage inn, Hml.

frum-sceaft

(n.)
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frum-sceaft, e; f.
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Substitute: and add: a first shaping, birth Þé wǽre sélre . . . þǽr þú wurde ǽt frymþe (frumsceafte, v. l.) fugel . . . þonne þú ǽfre on moldan man gewurde it had been better for thee . . . if thou hadst been born a bird . . . than that thou shouldst

híwan

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Hí(g)na ealdor the head of a household: Gemétte hé þǽr fǽmnan wæs nift þæs hína ealdres (patris familias), Bd. 3, 9; Sch. 231, 11.