Ge-leáfful

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-leáfful
Add: I. having faith, or trust:--Hé wæs Gode geleáffull on his heortan, Shrn. 76, 21. II. having the Christian faith, Christian:--Blissian nú eall geleáffull folc, for þon þe for ús Crístes blód wæs ágoten, Bl. H. 91, 7. Godes ðeówas hí wurðiað on geleáffulre gelaðunge, Hml. Th. ii. 560, 2. Of geleáffullan cynne heó wæs ásprungon, Chr. 1067; P. 202, 18. Ꝥ wíf bið gehálgad þurh geleáffulne wer, 15. Se eosel þe Críst on sittan wolde tácnaþ ꝥ geleáffulle folc Judéa (those of the Jews that believed on him), Bl. H. 79, 30. Ealle geleáffulle men all Christians, 35, 9. II a. used substantively in pl., believers, Christians, the faithful:--On þǽre gesihðe wesað ealle geleáffulle, Bl. H. 13, 28: 81, 16. Mid geleáffullum hé gefylde þysne middangeard, 11, 8. Heó bróhte eallum geleáffullum éce hǽlo, 5, 30. Óþrum geleáffullumteala dón, 75, 18. III. catholic, orthodox:--Geleáfful catholicus, rectus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 54. Þone geleáffullan geleáfan catholicam fidem, Ath. Crd. 1. Seó emniht is on .xii.&m-super;&a-super; kl. April., swá swá þá geleáffullan rǽderas (orthodox scholars) hit gesetton, Lch. iii. 256, 21. Geleáfulra catholicorum (patrum), An. Ox. 172. Geleáf[ulra] orthodoxorum, 4574. IV. of the church; substantively in pl., ecclesiastics:--Ofermódinesse geleáf[ulra] insolentiam ecclesiasticorum, An. Ox. 5302.

Related words: riht-, un-geleáffull. ge-leafful

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