Ge-recenness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-recenness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
(P), e ;
- ge-recenness
- f. I. a coming together (?) :-- Gerecenesse congerie (cf. congerie ge-gæderuncge, An. Ox. 435), Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 26. II. a going, departure (cf. ge-witenness). ge-reclic (-recce-); adj. That affords proof or explanation, v. ge-rec; III: or orderly, v. ge-rec, II, un-gerec :-- He sceal beforan ðǽm ðearlwísan Déman mid gereclicre (-recce-) race gereccean ðæt hé ðæt ilce self dyde jbe hé ððre men lǽrde opud districtum judicem cogitur tanta in opere exsolvere, quanta eum constat aliis voce praecepisse, Past. 192, 15.. See next word. ge-reclíce. Substitute: In an orderly manner. (1) of movement, smoothly, quietly :-- Ǽspringe Ce áwealleð of clife . . . and gereclice rihte fiðweð, Met. 5, 14. Ofer rodorum gereclíce feðerum lácan (to fly smoothly), 24, 8. (2) of action :-- He eallum gereclice racað and eáðelice hit eall set regit cuncta foriiter suaviterque disponat, Bt. 35, 4; F. 162, I. v. un-gereclice.ge-recness. v. ge-receness: ge-reca. v. ge-rec.ge-redian. I. to reach, get at :-- Sceal him mon. . . blód Isétan on þám swíþran earme on þÉére niþerran ǽdre. Gif þá mon ne mæge eáþe geredian, þonne sceal mon on þǽre middelǽdre blód lǽtan, Lch. ii. 210, 10. II. to carry out, efect, do :-- Ne see ðú þurh hlytas hfi ii geweoráan scyle . . . ; eáðe gerædað God ðæt hé wile be ðé, ðeáh hé hit iíé ǽr ne secge, Prov. K. 32. III. to ^nd out, Ait upon :-- Sé hæfð gódne rǽd þe him geredað ǽfre hwæt him tó dónne sý and hvvæt tó forlǽtenne, Wlfst. 57, 15. Gerædað, 51, 19. v. ge-recenness