Ge-cirredness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-cirredness

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 ge-cirredness

Take here ge-cyrredness in Dict., and add: I. a going to a place, the going of a monk to a monastery. [Cf. tó mynstre gecyrran, R. Ben. 114, 13.] :-- Sý swylcera gebyrda oþþe gecyrrednesse swylce hé sý (whatever his birth or the time of his coming to the monastery), sý hé gemedemad on stede swá swá his gecerrednes sý, R. Ben. 12, 20-13, 2: 107, 10-11. Healde hé simle þone styde his gecyrrednesse locum illum semper attendat quo ingressus est in monasterio, 113, 5. Ǽlc endebyrdnys on mynstre sceal beón gehealden be heora gecyrrednysse (according to the date of entrance), 112, 23. II. conversion :-- Óswold hine tó fulluhte nam, fægen his gecyrrednysse, Hml. S. 26, 133. Se deófol nam graman ongeán þone Godes man for þæs folces gecyrrednysse fram his fúlum biggengum, 29, 185. Geefenlǽce hé Paules gecyrrednysse, Hml. Th. i. 56, 24: 578, 30. Mid sóðre gecyrrednysse Dryhten gesécan, Hml. A. 53, 82. Þeóda gecyrrednesse gentium conversionem, An. Ox. 40, 4. ge-cirredness

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