Ge-streón

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-streón

Add: I. as verbal abstract. (l) getting by effort , gaining, acquiring by dealing, traffic, commerce :-- Gestrión commercium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 104, 41. Gestreón negotium, Hpt. Gl. 469, 5. Mangung, gestreón mercimonium, commercium, An. Ox. 4007. Seó gesomnung þára deárwyrþra gimma oþþe ꝥ unmǽte gestreón goldes and seolfres, Bl. H. 99, 28. Of eorþlicum cýpinga gestreóne de terreno nundinarum mercatu. An. Ox. 2656. Mid mangunge, gestreóne commercio, 3064. Ne mage gé Gode ðeówian and eóweres feós gestreóne, Hml. Th. ii. 460, 31. (l a) of getting by violence, rapine, robbery :-- Wæs hé hogiende tó gestreóne (reáfláce, ) manna æhta in rapinam rerun inhians, Gr. D. 162, 32. (2) begetting of children, procreation, production :-- Genitiuus is gestrýnendlic: mid þám casu byð geswutelod ǽlces (ðinges gestreón, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 22, 13. Ðá ðe for bearnes gestreóne hǽmed begáð, Hml. Th. i. 148, 22: ii. 94, 3 : 590, 23. For bearna gestreóne, Solil. H. 36, 8, II. of material or non-material objects , what is got by effort, gain, profit, advantage, acquisition :-- Ðincþ þé ꝥ lytel gestreón . . . þætte þeós wiþerweardnes . . . þá mód þe geopenaþ ðínra getreówra freónda, Bt. 20; F. 72, II. Manigra folca gestreónes hié wieóldon labores populorum possederunt. Past. 391, 4. Gestreó(ne) questu, An. Ox. 8, 69. Gestrión lucrum, Kent. Gl. 431. Þá unriht-wísan déman him of hira ceasterwarena forþrycnesse gestreón gaderiað, Ll. Lbmn. 475, 23. Hé sécð ðisses middangeardes gestreón (lucrum) . . . Hé scolde his gestreón (lucrá) tóweorpan, Past. 55, 9-11. Gestreón emolumenta, i. lucra, An. Ox. 557 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 70. Gestreónu lucra, Scint. 76, 12. Hé wilniað ðisses middangeardes gestreóna, Past. 331, 21. Godes ðonces, nals ná for fraceðlecum gestreónum (turpis lucri gratia), 137, 21. Of unryhtum gestreónum and of mándædum. . 343, 4 : Bl. H. 25, 6. Ágife hé Drihtne þone teóþan dǽl for his ðǽm eorþlicum gestreónum, 49, 30: 51, 8. Gestreónum compendiis. Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 61. Oðer ondréd ðæt hé forlure sprecende ðá gestrión ðe hé on ðǽre swígean geðencan meahte iste ne tacitae contemplationis lucra loquens perderet, Past. 49, 20. III. interest, usury, revenue :-- Of gestrióne fenore, Kent. Gl. 1046. Gestreón reditus (pl.), An. Ox. 4832. IV. possession, property, wealth :-- Gestrión patrimonium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 115, 78. Ðá ðe hira ágen nyllað sellan. . . geðencen ðæt ðiós eorðe, ðe him ðæt gestreón of cóm . . . , Past. 335, 10. Monegum men genihtsumað þisse worlde gestreón æt his ende, Bl. H. 97, 25. Gestreónes, yrfes patrimonii, An. Ox. 3151. Welan, fæderes gestreónes, 3604. Þ UNCERTAIN hé of his yldrena gestreóne hine sylfne fercian móte. Hml. S. 23, 597. Hé æfter him tó eallum his gestreónum féng haereditalem ejus adsumsit, Ors. 5, 13; S. 244, 23. IV a. of costly things, as collective, treasures, wealth, treasure. Cf. ge-streónfull; I. 2 :-- Hé begeat Alexandriam, and mid hiere gestreóne hé gewelgade Rómeburg Alexandria potitus est, et Roma opibus ejus aucta est, Ors. 5, 13; S. 246, 36. Earme synt þises middangeardes gestreón . . . Hwǽr synt þá welegan þisse weorolde ? hwǽr is nú heora gold ? Wálá ꝥ for swá medmiclum gestreóne hí synt lǽdde tó swá heardum tyntergum, Ll. Th. ii. 396, 25-31. Gold and godweb, Iósephes gestreón, Exod. 587 : 6. 2037. Gestrión (gistrión goldes, R.) thesaurum, Mk. L. 10, 21. Þára gestreóna gazarum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 42. Nǽnig man on worlde tó ðæs mycelne welan nafað, ne tó ðon módelico gestreón, Bl. H. 111, 24. Æðelinga gestreón, frætwe and fǽt gold, B. 1920: 3167. Gestrión, Met. i. 23. Þás lǽnan gestreón, ídle ǽhtwelan, Ap. 83. Gestrióna thesauros, Mt. L. 6, 19. Gestreóno (-e. R.) pecunias, Mk. L. 10, 23. v. ǽht-, ǽr-, bearn-, bóc-, botl-, dryht-, eald-, eorl-, fæder-, feoh-, folc-, fyrn-, heáh-, hord-, horn-, lang-, mádm-, sinc-, þeód-, un-, unriht-, weorold-, wóh-gestreón. ge-streon

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