Ge-camp

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-camp

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-camp
n. (not m.). Add :-- Gecampe bello, Wülck. Gl. 248, 13. I. warfare, battle. (1) literal :-- Cempa þe on nánum gecampe náht ðegenlices ne gefremode, Hml. Th. i. 342, 5. Iulianus wolde neádian preóstas tó woruldlicum gecampe, Hml. S. 25, 834. (2) fig. spiritual warfare :-- Hí sceolon mid sige þæs gástlican gecampes tó him eft gecyrran þe hí tó þám gefeohte ásende, Hml. Th. ii. 402, 14. Gecampes (cenobialis) militie, An. Ox. 4169. Godes fyhtling (St. Paul) sóhte þone feld þæs gecampes (certaminis campum), Gr. D. 110, 15. Muneca cyn þe ... under abbodes tǽcinge on gecampe wuniaþ (militans sub abbate), R. Ben. 9, 4. Wé magon ðá feóndlican leahtras mid gecampe oferwinnan, gif wé cénlíce feohtað, Hml. S. 16, 379. II. a struggle, conflict, contest, (1) physical :-- Ús nis nán gecamp ongeán flǽsc and blód non est nobis colluctatio adversus carnem et sanguinem (Eph. 6, 11), Hml. Th. ii. 218, 4. Pleglices gecampes Olimphiaci agonis. An. Ox, 2, 5. Ǽlc ðǽra þe on gecampe winð (in agone contendit, I Cor. 9, 25), forhæfð hine sylfne fram eallum þingum, Hml. Th. ii. 86, 22. (2) non-physical :-- Hú micel wǽre ꝥ gecamp (certamen) þe wann on þæs rihtwísan mannes breóstum, Gr. D. 18, 4. Hé ábád mid his gebróðrum tihtende hí tó ðám tówerdan gecampe (the coming persecution), Hml. S. 4, 103. Gyt mid gástlicum gecampe winnað ongeán ðone drý, Hml. Th. i. 374, 22. God sette gecamp geleáffullum sáwlum, 64, 19. ge-camp
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