Ge-tǽse

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ge-tǽse
n. An advantage; commodum :-- Ac geþenc ðæt ðú hym forwymdest ǽlcra getésa ðá git becgen on líchaman wǽron and ðú hæfdest ǽlc good and he hefde ǽlc yfel ne mót he ðé nú ðý máre dón to getǽcan ðe ðú ðá hym woldest but remember that thou didst refuse him every advantage when ye were both in the body and thou hadst every good and he had every evil; he cannot now do more for thy advantage than thou wouldest then do for his, Shrn. 202, 31-4. Hió an Æþelflede ealra ðera getǽsa ðet ðǽr binnan beóþ she gives to Æthelfled all the desirable things that are there within, Th. Chart. 538, 37. Getǽse commodum, Cot. 59, Lye. ge-tæse
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