Ge-leáfa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-leáfa

Add: I. the mental action, condition, or habit of trusting to a person or thing, trust, faith:--Þín ágen geleáfa þe hæfþ gehǽledne fides tua te saluum fecit, Bl. H. 15, 27: Mk. 10, 51: Lk. 18, 41. Þín geleáfa (belief in thee) on úrum móde þurhwunige, Hy. 6, 8. Þone gefeán þe þú mid geleáfan tó mé geearnodest, Bl. H. 63, 28. Heó áhte trumne geleáfan tó þǽm Ælmihtigan, Jud. 6: 345. Hé getrymede heora geleáfan, Bl. H. 17, 8. Gif wé willaþ on Drihten gelýfan . . . wé sceolon þone geleáfan mid gódum dǽdum gefyllan, 23, 10. Ne hí on gewitnesse hæfdon on hiora fyrhðe fæstne geleáfan nec fides habita est illis in testamento ejus, Ps. Th. 77, 36. Ꝥ hí rihtne geleáfan habban on þone sóðan God, Ll. Th. i. 326, 12: 372, 33. Beran in breóstum beorhtne geleáfan, Gú. 770. I a. belief in God, Christian faith:--Hé lǽrde þá leóde on geleáfan weg, An. 1682. Þám þe ic lífes ofonn, leóhtes geleáfan, Jul. 378. Hé hí tó geleáfan onbryrde, Bl. H. 107, 2. Leóde lǽran ꝥ hí lifgen on geleáfan, Dóm. 49. II. mental acceptance of a statement or fact:--Hé wæs þurh þæs mæssepreóstes láre on fullum geleáfan heofonríces de vitae aeternitate securus, Ors. 6, 34; S. 290, 12. Hý him sylfum séllan þúhton þonne Críst; gelugon hý him æt þám geleáfan, Hy. 4, 56. Þá men þá þe Godes ríces geleáfan habbað the men who believe in God's kingdom, Bl. H. 55, 17; 77, 4. Heó geleáfan nóm þæt hé þá bysene from Gode brungen hæfde, Gen. 650. III. what is believed, the proposition or set of propositions held true; the doctrines of a religious system:--Geleáfa se geleáffulla þes is ꝥ . . . Fides catholica haec est ut . . ., Ath. Crd. 3. Án is geleáfa, án is fulwiht, án fæder éce, Hy. 11, 8. Þæs geleáflican geleáfan catholice fidei, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 56. Ne gelýfe ic nó ꝥ hit geweorþan mihte . . . and ic nó ne wearþ of þám sóþan geleáfan nec umquam fuerit dies, qui me ab hac sententiae ueritate depellat, Bt. 5, 3; F. 12, 6. Hé wolde þone Xpes geleáfan (-lǽfan, ) geryhtan, Chr. 680; P. 38, 9. Monega þeóda Crístes geleáfan (the Christian religion) onféngon, Ll. Th. i. 58, 1: El. 491. Ꝥ hé cunne rihtne geleáfan understandan, Ll. Th. i. 372, 23. Bodiað beorhtne geleáfan preach the gospel, Cri. 483. IV. a formal statement of doctrines believed, a creed:--Hér is geleáfa and gebed . . . Pater Noster on Englisc . . . Se lǽssa créda, Hml. Th. ii. 596, 1-11. v. un-geleáfa. ge-leafa

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