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Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-sceapennys

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1 ge-sceapennys

f. A creation, creating, formation; creātio :-- God geswác ðære niwan gesceapennysse God ceased from the new creation, Boutr. Scrd. 17, 17. On ðæs mannes gesceapennysse in the creating of man, 19, 7. Se man ðe deófle ge-efenlǽcþ se biþ deófles bearn, ná þurh gecynd oððe þurh gesceapenysse, ac þurh ða geefenlǽcunge and yfele geearnunga the man who imitates the devil is a child of the devil, not by nature nor by creation, but by that imitation and evil deserts, Homl. Th. i. 260, 13, 15. ge-sceapennys
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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛋᚳᛠᛈᛖᚾᚾᚣᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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