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Ge-mang

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1 ge-mang

I. a mingling together, mixture, crowd, throng, company, multitude, an assemblage, a congregation; commixtio, turba, cœtus, sŏcietas :-- Ic bebeóde wundor geweorþan on wera gemange I command a miracle to be done in the midst of men, Andr. Kmbl. 1460; An. 730. God mihtig stód godum on gemange Deus stĕtit in synăgōga deōrum, Ps. Th. 81, 1. In heora gemange in their congregation, L. Wih. 23; Th. i. 42, 6 : Nicod. 6; Thw. 6, 8. Gáras sendon in heardra gemang they sent their darts into the throng of the brave, Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 36; Jud. 225. On clǽnra gemang in the company of the pure, Elen. Kmbl. 191; El. 96 : 216; El. 108 : 236; El. 118. II. an assembly for legal or other business :-- Ne miltsa ðú þearfan on gemange paupĕris non misĕrēbĕris in jūdĭcio, Ex. 23, 3. Ne mæg ic ána eówre gemang acuman non văleo sōlus nĕgōtia vestra sustĭnēre, Deut. 1, 12 : Shrn. 40, 30. ge-mang
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ᚷᛖ-ᛗᚪᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Latin

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.
Andreas (OE poem)
El.
Elene (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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