Gebyrd-tíd

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gebyrd-tíd

Add: I. the time of a person's birth :-- Ymbe nigon hund wintra and nigon and seoxtig ðæs ðe Drihtnes gebyrdtíde wæs. C.D. iii. 50, 9. Fram gebyrdtíde (-a, An. Ox. 2842) iugeðe ab ipsa cunabulorum temeritudine, Hpt. Gl. 473, 7. Of úres Drihtnes gebyrdtíde tó þám ende. Wlfst. 312, 2. Ðis wæs gedón ðý geáre ðe wæs ágán fram Crístes gebyrdtíde nigon hund wintra and hundnigontig wintra, C.D. iii. 255, 22. Gebyrðtíde, 256, 18. Fram Abrahames ácennednesse forð oð Móyses gebyrdtídu ... fram Móyses gebyrdtíde forð tó Salomones gebyrde, Angl. xi. 9, 7-11. I a. the day of Christ's birth and the days following up to Twelfth-night (cf. II a) :-- On ðám forman dæge his gebyrdtíde hé wearð æteówed þrým hyrdum, Hml. Th. i. 104, 30. Wearð hé on þám eahtoðan dæge his gebyrdtíde ymbsniden, 94, 19. II. the anniversary of a person's birth, birthday :-- xl. nihta ǽr Geólum (middan wintra, úres Dryhtnes gebyrdtíde, ) xl. diebus ante Natale Domini, Ll. Th. ii. 162, 12. Ǽr Crístes gebrydtíde, Bd. 4, 30; Sch. 535, 21. Hí hæfdon on ðám tíman micele blisse on heora gebyrdtídum, Hml. Th. i. 480, 29. II a. one of the days between Christmas-day and Twelfth-night, [v. I a. and cf. Her segð ymb Drihtnes gebyrd ymb þa xii niht his tíde, Lch. iii. 164, 13, and see Hml. Th. i. 94, 19 above.] :-- Hé cymð tó ús on þǽre þriddan gebyrtíde, Vis. Lfc. 22. ge-byrd-tid,gebyrd-tid

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