Be-geát

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - be-geát

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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be-geát
n. (f. in Laym.). I. attainment, acquisition:--For begeáte þæs écan lífes, Hml. Th. i. 240, 7: ii. 70, 22. For begeáte obtentu, An. Ox. 2698: 3915. II. what is acquired, possessions, property:--Cýð mildheortnysse earmum mannum mid þínum begeáte, Hml. Th. ii. 104, 27. Mid þínum begeátum, Wlfst. 286, 29. Hí læccað of manna begeátum lóc hwæt hí gefón magan, Ll. Th. ii. 328, 4. Unlytel on ǽhtum . . , mycele welan on manegum begeátum, Hml. A.108, 202. [Þe biȝeate UNCERTAIN of heouene, A. R. 166. He biȝet UNCERTAIN þeos þreo biȝeaten, UNCERTAIN 160. For þære muchele biȝæte UNCERTAIN (-ȝeate, UNCERTAIN 2nd MS.), Laym. 609. Towarrd erþliȝ UNCERTAIN biȝæte, UNCERTAIN Orm. 16835.] be-geat
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