Ge-lícnes
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-lícnes
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-lícnes
- Add: I. the quality of being like or equal:--Swá micel gelícnys is on ðyssere Hálgan Ðrynnysse, þæt se Fæder nis ná máre þonne se Sunu on ðǽre godcundnysse, ne se Sunu nis ná máre þonne se Hálga Gást; ne nán heora án nis ná lǽsse þonne eall seó Ðrynnys, Hml. Th. i. 282, 32. II. that which resembles an object, a like shape, a semblance:--Ne wæs þæt ná fugul ána, ac þǽr wæs ǽghwylces ánra gelícnes horses and monnes, hundes and fugles, and eác wífes wlite, Rä. 37, 10. Þú (the dead body) lámes gelícnes, Seel. 19. Hé gestrínde sunu tó his gelícnesse and anlýcnysse genuit ad imaginem et similitudinem suam, Gen. 5, 3. Tó Godes gelícnesse ad similitudinem Dei, 1. Tó gilícnesse Goddes ad imaginem Dei, Rtl. 109, 11. Mid forewittigere gelícnysse presago (vituli) simulacro, An. Ox. 1969. Wolcen on fýres gelícnysse, Chr. 979; P. 122, 25. His eágan wendon on gelícnysse sweltendra manna, Hml. Th. i. 86, 25. ¶ of likeness in action, on (þǽre, þá) gelícnesse after the manner of, in like manner as:--On gelícnesse ad instar, Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 49. Se wǽta cymþ tó þám tóþan on þáre gelícnesse þe hyt of húse dropað on stán, Lch. iii. 104, 10. Ꝥ hí . . . yrre fram him ácyrde on þá gelícnesse Niniuítwarona (instar Nineuitarum), Bd. 4, 25; Sch. 493, 4. Wel ꝥ gedafenode ꝥ Drihten swá dyde on þá gelícnesse, Bl. H. 67, 12. Efne þǽm gelícost swylce (on ðá gelícnesse swá, Bl. N.) ðá gesceafta him betweónan gefeohtan sceoldan, 221, 14. II a. form, shape, figure:--Gelícnysse liniamento [this gloss seems to shew that in Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 47-48, liniamento limgelecg, afflatus eácen vel gelícnes, gelícnes belongs to liniamento. The mistake is repeated in Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 6], An. Ox. 2510: 8, 131. Æteówed wæs in óðre gelícnisse (on óðrum híwe, W. S.) ostensus est in alia effigiae, Mk. R. L. 16, 12. III. the representation of an object, an image, a copy:--Hwæs gelícnis his þæt cujus est imago haec?, Mt. R. L. 22, 20: Mk. L. R. 12, 16. Gelícnes iconisma (regale compto stemmate depictum), Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 45: 47, 14. Æples gelícnes on þǽre ascan bið geméted, Ph. 230. Ic hét wircan þǽr of ánes celfes gelícnysse, Ex. 32, 24. Gelícnessa signa (cuncti velut aenea signa rigebant), Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 10. IV. an example, a parable:--Gelícnesse paradigmate (cf. paradigma bíspel, bysene, 66, 3), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 81. In gelícnessum in parabulis, 73, 25.