Ge-sceád

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-sceád
adj. I. reasonable, discreet, prudent :-- Hí setton him ǽnne wícnere getreówne and swíðe gesceádne, Hml. S. 23, 217. Þá ne beóð ná wíse ne gescáde þe Godé nellað hýran, Ll. Th. i. 334, 5. [Ger. ge-scheit.] II. calculated, fixed (? cf. ge-sceád ; XI. 2) :-- Gesceád ratum, Kent. Gl. 1164. ge-scead

Related words: un-gesceád.

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