Ge-eácnung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-eácnung

Add: I. conceiving, conception. (1) in active sense :-- Þá æfter þan wǽron gefylde nigan mónað hire geeácnunge, þá cende Anna hyre dohtor, Hml. As. 125, 282. Þ UNCERTAIN hé bodige hire geeácnunge, Bl. H. 143, 24. (2) in passive sense :-- Sci UNCERTAIN Iohannis geeácnung, Shrn. 133, 26. II. what is conceived :-- Hyre geeácnung (or I. l ?) is of ðám Hálgan Gáste (quod in ea natum est de Spiritu Sancto est, Mt. l, 20), Hml. As. 135, 630. Wíf seó þe tó ǽwyrpe gedó hire geeácnunga on hyre hryfe mulier quae utero conceptum excusserit, Ll. Th. ii. 154, 15. III. parturition, birth :-- Swilc gedafenað geeácnung talis decet partus Deum, Hy. S. 43, 32. Wið ꝥ wíf hrædlíce cenne . . . Sóna swá eall seó geeácnung gedón beó, Lch. i. 218, 23. Geeácnungum partubus, An. Ox. 3136. IV. what is born :-- Þú Alýsend . . . geeácnung mǽdenes Redemptor . . . partus virginis, Hy. S. 41, 34. ge-eacnung