Ge-met-fæst

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-met-fæst

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-met-fæst
adj. Moderate, modest; moderatus, modestus :-- Ne hie ðám geþyldegum and ðám gemetfæstum simble ne wuniaþ neither do they always dwell with the patient and moderate, Bt. 11, 1; Fox 34, 3. Sió is swíðe gemetfæst she is very modest, 10; Fox 28, 20. Man gemetfæst vir modestus, Bd. 1, 16; S. 484, 18: 4, 28; S. 606, 33: Exon. 48 b; Th. 168, 19; Gú. 1080: 95 b; Th. 357, 19; Pa. 31. ge-metfæst,ge-met-fæst
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