Ge-crístnian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-crístnian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-crístnian
- Substitute: To administer the rite of crístnung to a person. See the passage given under crístnian; II. [The passages given under crístnian; I and IV (l. III) should be taken under II. In Bd. 5, 6; Sch. 581, 1-19 the rite is evidently referred to, as it says: Hé (the bishop) on mínne andwlitan bleów; and it was the ritual that (in Sch. 580, 19) it is said the dull priest could not master. The rite was introductory, and preceded, sometimes by years, that of baptism. The person who had undergone the rite became a Catechumen], and add :-- Se bisceop hí gecrístnode, and tǽhte hí þá gerýna þæs hálgan geleáfan, and gefullode hí, Hml. S. 30, 93: 31, 1036 (Martinus adhuc catechumenus hac me ueste contexit, Bl. N. 3, 14. Þá þá hé wæs týn wintra, þá wearð hé gecrístnod (cf. þá þá hé wæs eahtatýnewintre, hé wearð gefullod, 90), Hml. S. 31, 23. Arn hé tó cyrcan fulluhtes biddende; and hé wearð þá gecrístnod (cf. gefullod ðá ðá hé on ylde eahtatýne geára wæs, 502, 1), Hml. Th. ii. 498, 30. Cóm án gecrístnod man ... ac hé wearð seóc swá ꝥ hé forðférde un-gefullod, Hml. S. 31, 207. Gecrístnad catacizatus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 56: 18, 54. Gecrísnod, An. Ox. 4084. Gecrístnodes catacumini, 2207. Gecrístnode catacuminos, 2881. ge-cristnian