Ge-wyrht

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wyrht

Add: ge-wyrhtu(-o); f. I. a work :-- Dō ā þætte duge. Deág þīn gewyrhtu ; God þē bid symle gōda gehwylces freá and fultum feónd þām ōdrum wyrsan gewyrhta do ever what may profit. Your work will avail; God will always be a lord to help you in every-thing good, while he will be a foe to others whose works are worse, Fä. 4-7. Reddet Deus unicunque secundum opera sua; þæt is on ūre geþeóde: hē forgylt ānra gehwylcum æfter his āgenum gewyrhtum, Wlfst. 184, 9. Gif gē scyld on eów witen dæs de eów man tīhd odde on gewyrhtum odde on gewitnesse if you know yourselves guilty as principals or as accessories, Rtl. 114, 23. Be folcleásunge gewyrhtum. Gif mon folcleásunge gewyrce de publico mendacio conficto. Si quis publicum mendacium confingat, Ll. Th. i. 80, 19. Cwīdende cwicra gewyrhtu mourning the deeds done in the flesh, Cri. 892. II. desert, merit :-- Æghwæder ānfealde gewyrht wiged each gets just what he deserves, Cri. 1578. ꝥ be þǣra (þǣre, MS.) cennendra gewyrhtum (-fyrhtum, MS.) þæs bearnes weorbe ongyten wǣre ut ex generantium meritis dignitas germinis nosceretur, Bl. H. 163, 27. Næs ǣnig mann swā mǣre þæt hē on ān ne sceolde tō helle swā hē fordfaren wæs; and þæt wæs ǣrest for Adames gewyrhtum, Wlfst. 16, 15. Þā þe be gewyrhtum (-gewyrhte, ) āwyrgede wǣron qui merito maledicebantur. Bd. 4, 26 ; Sch. 505, 7. Ic āreóse be gewyrhtum decidam merito, Ps. Spl. 7, 4. Þaelig-long;r leán cumad werum bi gewyrhtum worda and dǣda these rewards will come to men according to their deserts for words and deeds, Cri. 1368. Geweorhtum, Met. 27, 27. Hī þæs deóran hām wilniad bi gewyrhtum (as it deserves), Gū. 41. Gief hwā būton ge-wrihtum (without just cause) hit ābrecan wille, C. D. iii. 180, 22 : 262, 15. ¶ gewyrht(o) āgan to deserve (good or ill) :-- Hē þone gylt gebēte swā wer swā wīte, swā hē gewyrht āge, Ll. Th. i. 66, 13. Hē mē sié ārfæstra þonne ic wid hine gewyrht āge may he be more merciful to me than my conduct towards him deserves, Angl. xi. 99, 91. Þone ic wid hine geworht āge, 102, 75. Hē hæfde gewurdod þe þā gewyrhto āhton (those who deserved it), Dan. 444. v. ǣr-, eald-, fyrn-, un-gewyrht. ge-wyrht

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