ge-wita
One who is cognisant of anything ⬩ a witness ⬩ an accessory ⬩ testis ⬩ conscius
Entry preview:
Ðisæs is Oda gewita of this is Oda witness, Th. Chart. 510, 5. God sylf his is gewita God is his own witness, Homl. Th. ii. 126, 9: i. 84, 4: Ps. Th. 88, 31. Ða leásan gewitan the false witnesses, Homl. Th. i. 50, 14, 29: Swt. A. S. Rdr. 72, 497.
Déprobane
An island in the Indian ocean, Ceylon ⬩ Taprŏbăna = Ταπρoβάνη
Entry preview:
An island in the Indian ocean, Ceylon; Taprŏbăna = Ταπρoβάνη Be súþan eástan ðam porte is ðæt ígland Déprobane to the south-east of the port [Calymere] is the island Ceylon, Ors. 1, 1; Bos. 16, 16. v. Táprabane
gifre
Entry preview:
Ic wát eardfæstne ánne standan, deáfne dumban, sé oft swilged gifrum lácum (the subject of the riddle is a bookcase, the gifre lác are books), Rä. 50, 3. 7u In Rä 270 a book is the subject. Add
un-wiþmetenlíc
Incomparable ⬩ not to be compared
Entry preview:
Incomparable, not to be compared Is his eádmódnys ús unwiðmetenlíc, Homl. Skt. i. 16, 119. Ðis hálige mǽden, Godes módor, is unwiðmetenlíc eallum óðrum mǽdenum, Homl. Th. i. 442, 29. Hire geðincðu óðra hálgena unwiðmetenlíce sind, 446, 5
Linked entry: wiþ-metenlíc
ge-metgung
Moderation, temperance, a fit or proper measure, a direction, a regulation ⬩ moderatio, temperantia, modus, moderamen
Entry preview:
wisdom is the highest virtue, and it has in it four other virtues, of which one is prudence, another temperance, the third is fortitude, and the fourth justice, Bt. 27, 2; Fox 96, 34, note.
un-geregnod
Unornamented
Entry preview:
Unornamented Massehakele þæt is ungerénad, Chart. Th. 515, 26
Linked entry: ge-regnian
un-tódǽledness
Undividedness
Entry preview:
Undividedness Indivisio, ðæt is untódǽlednyss, Anglia viii. 318, 17
Linked entry: tó-dǽledness
ge-mægenod
Entry preview:
The original Latin is: Postquam Caedualla reguo potitus est
heals-mægeþ
Entry preview:
Dele 'e'; mægeþ is not inflected in the singular
in-gelǽdan
Entry preview:
Is ingelǽded inditur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 61. Add
in-swógenness
Entry preview:
Add: Insweógnesse is a v.l., Bd. Sch. 133, 23
sceþness
Entry preview:
Add: the Latin is: Sine ullius valetudinis molestia pergebat
swylt
Entry preview:
Dele: probably swyttes in the gloss is for swyftes
úþ-mǽte
Entry preview:
Add: — Unmǽte is a v.l., Mart. H. 76, l
á-lísendness
Entry preview:
Dryhten is úre álýsendnes, Verc. Först. 135, 4. Add
á-wendendness
Entry preview:
Ðǽr is wlite bútan áwendendnesse, Verc. Först. 134. Add
deóp-lic
Entry preview:
Add: I. where great knowledge is shewn or required Dis fers is swíðe deóplic eów tó understandenne, Hml. Th. ii. 386, 3. Hit wile þingcan ungelǽredum mannum tó deóplic, Lch. iii. 244, 10.
Gyrwas
Entry preview:
On þǽre stówe þe is genemned Crúland ; þæt mynster is on middan Gyrwan (Girwan, v. l. ) fænne (Crowland is called elsewhere 'Monasterium Gyruensis', Chr. P. ii. 37), Guth. Gr. 176, 2
séðan
Entry preview:
Séðende ðæt Crist is Godes Sunu 'proving that this is very Christ' (Acts 9, 22), Homl. Th. i. 388, 4
stæf-cræft
the art of letters ⬩ grammar ⬩ skill in letters ⬩ learning ⬩ study
Entry preview:
Gramma is on Englisc stæf, and grammatica is stæfcræft, 50; Zup. 289, 10.
Linked entry: stæf-cyst