Geáp-scipe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

geáp-scipe

Add: cleverness, astuteness :-- Gēpscipe stropha, An. Ox. 18 b, 80. Hē rīxade ofer Englæland, and hit mid his geápscipe swā þurhsmeáde, ꝥ næs ān hīd landes innan Englælande ꝥ hē nyste hwā heó hæfde, Chr. 1086; P. 220, 19. [Swich ȝepshipe forbeded de apostel þere he seid; 'Nolite esse prudentes aput uosmetipsos' . . . Ðe man noted wel his ȝiepshipe þe birged him seluen wid his agene soule unfreme . . . To swich ȝiepshipe mineȝede hure Helende his apostles, O. E. Hml. ii. 195, 2-10. Heo færden mid ȝeapscipe and mid wisdome, Laym. 2760.] geap-scipe