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Beda

(n.)
Grammar
Beda, an; m.

Venerable Bede

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Utrumque per ministerium reverentissimi Episcopi Johannis jubente Ceolfrido Abbate suscepi. - Ex quo tempore accepti Presbyteratus usque ad annum ætatis meæ quinquagesimum nonum [A.

ge-hæftan

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Add: To prevent free movement or action. to restrict, restrain, confine Ðonne monn ðæt mód gehæft cum cogitatio per custodiam restringitur, Past. 273, 17.

ge-leornian

(v.)
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Hé fram Godes ængle ꝥ bebod underféng and þurh nǽnigne menniscne man ne geleornode mandatum ab angelo didicit, quod per hominem non cognovit, 13, 24.

meaht

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</b> in pl. powers :-- Mihta (-um, MS.) uirtutum (Johannes . . . miris uirtutum signis per totum orbem claruit), An. Ox. 1805.

rest

(n.)
Grammar
rest, e; ;f.;

rest, quiet, freedom from toilrest, repose, sleepa place of rest, resting-placea bed, couch

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On mínre reste ;per stratum meum,; Ps. Th. 62, 6. Míne cnihtas synt on reste mid mé ( ;in cubili; Lk. Skt. 11, 7. Wæs án gesittende beforan his reste ( ;ante lectulum ejus; ), Bd. 4, 11; S. 579, 38.

Linked entries: ræst reste

un-stillness

(n.)
Grammar
un-stillness, e; f.

absence of restmotiondisturbancenoisinessclamourtumultbustlecommotiondisturbancebreach of peacerestlessnessunrulinessdisquietudedisturbance of mindtrouble

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unstilnesse and ungemetlíce hleahtras, and unnytte sprǽce, Wulfst. 233, 18. tumult, bustle, commotion Hé ne mihte ða unstillnesse ðara onfeallendra menigeo áberan tumultus inruentium turbarum non ferret, Bd. 3, 19; S. 549, 32. disturbance, breach of peace

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fót

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Mid foet pede, Ps. Srt. 65, 6. Mid ðǽm fét, Past. 357, 21. Mid ðý fét, 358, 4. Óðre fét onscód, 44, 8. Seldon hé wolde rídan, ac síðode on his fótum. Hml. S. 26, 80. Gebindað him foet and honda, Mt.

ge-edstaþelian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-edstaþelian, ge-edstálian.
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A. 198, 119. of things, to repair, make sound again Geedstaþeles suscitabis (i. instaurabis hanc veteranam civitatem et pene mortuam in juvenculam). An. Ox. 2137. 'Geed-staðela þás tócwýsedan gymstánas'. . . Ðá wurdon ðá gymstánas ansunde, Hml.

tótian

(v.)
Grammar
tótian, p. ode

To peep outlook

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To peep out, look; Halliwell gives toot= to pry inquisitively, as a Northern word Se ceác oferhelede ða oxan ealle búton ða heáfudu tótodon út the basin covered the oxen entirely, except that the heads peeped out; luterem boves portant, qui facie exterius

winter

(n.)
Grammar
winter, es; m. (in pl. a neuter form wintru occurs, as well as masculine wintras, winter: the dat. sing. wintra is a trace of earlier u-stem declension).

a season of the yearwinterwintry weathercolda year

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Hí besǽtan ða burg .x. winter (per decem annos), Ors. 1, 14; Swt. 56, 19. Hé geheóld ríce fíftig wintru, Beo. Th. 4424; B. 2209. Siððan hé strýnde seofon winter suna and dohtra, Cd.

freónd-scipe

(n.)
Grammar
freónd-scipe, -scype, es; m.

FRIENDSHIPamīcĭtia

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Ðæt man friþ and freóndscipe rihtlíce healde that peace and friendship be lawfully observed, L. Eth. v. 1; Th. i. 304, 10: vi. 8; Th. i. 316, 28. Git móston freóndscype fremman ye might foster friendship, Exon. 123 a; Th. 473, 21; Bo. 18.

cwealm

(n.)
Grammar
cwealm, cwélm , es; m. n. [cwelan to die]

Death, destruction, a violent death, slaughter, murder, torment, plague, pestilence, contagion QUALM; mors, pernicies, nex, cædes, homicidium, cruciatus, lues, pestis, pestilentia, contagium

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Beóþ mycele eorþan styrunga geond stówa, and cwealmas terræmotus magni erunt per loca, et pestilentiæ, Lk. Bos. 21, 11.

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LANG

(adj.)
Grammar
LANG, adj.

LONGtall

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Ofer swá langne weg sǽs and landes per tam prolixa terrarum et maris spatia, 2, 18; S. 520, 36. Ealle ðás naman habbaþ langne .o. on eallum casum all these nouns have long o in all cases, Ælfc. Gr. 9; Som. 8, 52.

an-gin

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D. 95, 26. ꝥ hé forléte þá ongin þǽra bóccræfta relictis literarum studiis, 96, 19. attempt on, attack Ne becume mé fót ł angin ofermódignesse non veniat mihi pes superbiae, Ps. L. 35, 12. Onginnum inceptis (machinamentorum). An.

ge-dihtan

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Hú hé þurh gesihðe gedihte þá mynstertimbrunge de fabrica monasterii per visionem at eo disposita, Gl. D. 147, ii. Þæs mynstres getimbrunga gedíhtan. Hml. Th. ii. 172, ii. Hé é Gedihtere endebyrdnesse sealmsangas disposito ordine psalmodie, R. Ben.

mearc

(n.)
Grammar
mearc, a mark, <b>mearc</b> a limit. [These may be taken under one head, see N. E. D. mark.]
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Hé Pætres mearce onféng accepta tonsura, Bd. 3, 18; Sch. 274, 4. a character made with a pen by an illiterate person in place of a signature Ꝥ gewrit mid his ágenre hand hé áuríte, oððe gif hé ná can stafas óðer fram him gebeden wríte ; and se nícumena

wǽdla

(n.; adj.)

poorneedyindigentwantingdeficient inpoor inbeggingpoorneedya poor, needy persona poor, needy persona beggar

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Þurh ða weallendan sond and þurh ða wǽdlan stówe wæteres and ǽlcere wǽtan per ferventes arenas et egentia humoris loca, Nar. 6, 9: 26, 8. begging Hé sæt blind wið ðone weg wǽdla (mendicans), Mk.

ge-ban

(n.)
Grammar
ge-ban, -bann, -benn, es; n.

a commandordinancedecreeproclamationmandātumstătūtumdecrētumthe indictionindictioedictum

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Bede, in his De Rătiōn Tempĕrum, says plainly, - Si vis scīre quŏta sit Indictio, sūme annos Dŏmĭni, et adjĭce tria, partīre per xv, et quod remansĕrit, ipsa est Indictio anni præsentis, Cap. xiv.

wana

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
wana, adj. generally indeclinable. I.
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Synn wana ná byð pec*-*calum non deerit, Scint. 78, 4 : Kent. Gl. 335. Wana sié absit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 57. Mé synd wana penegas desunt mihi nummi, Ælfc. Gr. 32; Zup. 202, 13.

for-beódan

(v.)

to forbidto restraincheckto prevent

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Se pépa hit him forboden hæfde, Chr. 1048; P. 172, 8. with a clause, affirmative Ðæt ús on óðerre stówe forbiét ðæt wé hit beforan mannum dón, on óðerre lǽrð . . . Ðǽr ðǽr God ús forbeád ðæt wé úre ryhtwísnesse beforan monnum dyden, Past. 451, 2-6.