Ge-ryne

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-ryne

Add; I. what is kept from observation or knowledge, a secret, mystery :-- Gerýna vel dígla sacramentum vel mysterium, Wrt. Voc. i. 47, 26. Dyrne geryna abdita (secretorum) arcana (produnlur), An. Ox. 4216. For foresrnea[gende] gerýna dígla ob indaganda secretorum archana, 1505. Ðys syndon þá hálgan gerýnu þe þá twégen wítegan gesáwon and gehýrdon, Nic. 19, 5: ii. 29. II. what is beyond mere human comprehension, a mystery. (1) of speech (prophecy, allegory, & c. ) :-- We nestan ǽr hwæt se blinda wæs ; nú we magon ongytan hwæt ILLEGIBLE gerýne tácnaþ, Bl. H. 17, 14. Gerýna oracula, An. Ox. 2535. (2) of actions, events, & c. :-- Se Hǽlend his þegnutn sǽde his þrowunga . . . hié ne mihton þá word ongeotan þæs heofonlican gerynes. Bl. H. 17, 9. III. what is beyond ordinary knowledge, an obscure subject :-- Wé tódǽlað þá dagas þæs geáres þurh seofon, and swá wé becumað tó þám andgite swá uiyceles gerénes (y is written over the second e), Angl. viii. 302, 39. Bissextus . . . we wyllad nú ymbe his gerýnu smeágan, 305, 41. lungum cnihtum geopenian ILLEGIBLE hig ððrum gecýðon þe his geréna lie cunnon, 306, 17. IV. a mystic meaning :-- He (Felix) ealle þá ðeóde æfter þám gerýne (-um, his noman (iuxta sui nominis sacramentum) fram wðnesse álýsde, Bd. 2, 15; Sch. 176, 22. V. in a theological sense, a religious rile, sacrament of the church :-- On þǽre cyricean biþ sungen ILLEGIBLE hálige gerýne, Bl. H. 77? 16. ]3ám gerýne onfón fullwihtes baþes, Bd. l, 27; Sch. 76, 6. Gerýne sacramento, i. mysterio (baplismatis), An. Ox. 2074. Gemǽnsumiende gerýnæ communicans sacramentum (Dominicum), 2141. He sealde hi [m] hálige gerýne Crístes líchaman and blódes, Hml. S. 30, 97. Clǽne girýne sacrificium, Rtl. 109, 21. Ðá gerýnu (-o, v. l.) þæs heofonlican cyninges sacra-menta caelesíis regis, Bd. 2, 9 ; Sch. 143, 17 : Hml. S. 23 b, 112. Ge-rýnum sacramentis (missaru m), An. Ox. 2875. Gerýna sacrantenta (catholicae fidei), 3218. V a. the consecrated elements of the eucharist :-- He hi gesmyrode mid gehálgudum ele, and eác gehúslode mid þæs Hǽlendes gerýnum, Hml. S. 3, 80. v. ge-rýno, gerýnu. ge-ryne

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