Ge-síþcund

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-síþcund
Add: I. in a general sense, gentle by birth, gentle in contrast with simple :-- Gif his sunu and his sunu sunu ꝥ geþeóð ꝥ hí swá micel landes habban, siþþan bið se ofsprinc gesíðcundes cynnes be twám þúsendum, Ll. Th. i. 188, ll. Drihten on ðreó tówearp þá cneordnysse, þæt wæs wælisc (servile) and on cyrlisc cynn (simple) and on gesýðcund cynn (gentle), Angl. xi. 3, 63. II. of the gesíþ class :-- Gif gesíðcund mon (cf. se gesíð, 5) þingað wið cyning . . . oþþe wið his hláford for þeówe oþþe for fríge, Ll. Th. i. 134, 2. Ánes ge-síðcundes mannes wíf coniugem comitis, Bd. 5, 4; Sch. 567, 2. ge-siþcund
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