Ge-strod

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

For the two separated forms substitute:

ge-strod
ge-strod, es; n. I. confiscation :-- Gestrod proscriptionem (cf. fordéminge, rýpincge ǽhta proscriptionem, i. fraudationem rerum, i. possessionum, An. Ox. 3149 : in both cases Ald. 43, 19 is glossed), Wrt. Voc. ii. 81, 67. II. robbery, rapine :-- Scottas ne sǽtincge ne gestrodu (-o, ) wið Angelðeóde syrwaþ Scotti nil contra gentem Anglorum insidiarum moliuntur aut fraudium, Bd. 5, 23; Sch. 692, ii. In gestrodu nyllað gewillian in rapinas nolite concupiscere, Ps. Srt. Vos. 61, II. Syndan cyrican bereáfode þurh hǽðenra manna gestrodu, Verc. Först. 164, 12. III. spoil, booty, ill-gotten gain. See passage in Dict. under ge-strod plunder, v. unriht-gestrod; ge-strúdan, ge-strúd. ge-strod

Related words: l.

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