Gīming

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(

gīming

-ung). Take here gēmung in Dict., and add: I. a taiking care of a person, entertaining, an entertainment, a wedding feast, nup-ials. I. 3. [Cf. O. Sax. gōma; pl. a marriage feast; nuptiae :-- Hē at them gōmum was (= se Hǣlend geceiged wæs tō dǣm færmum l hǣmdum (ad nubtias), Jn. L. 2, 2), Hēl. 2002] :-- Gēmung nuptias (a gloss on Mt. 22, 2. Cf. sē de dyde dā færmo l brȳdlōpa qui fecit nubtias, Mt. L. 22, 2), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, II. Gīming, 60, 52. Gēmung nuptiae, i. 288, 84. Tō gēmungum þæs heofonlican brȳdguman ad nuptias sponsi caelestis, Bd. 3, 24 ; Sch. 311, 9. [Od þæne dæg incre geámungæ, Hml. A. 132, 525. Tō hwan forhǣle þū ūs þīne gēmunga 135, 650.] II. care, management :-- Þām gewunode hē bringan grēne wyrta, and eft hweorfan tō þǣre gȳmingce (gīminge, v. l.) his wyrt-geardes (ad curam horti), Gr. D. 181, 4. III. care, keeping, guarding :-- Wē þe ūs befæst is seó gȳming Godes folces, Ll. Th. ii. 402, 10. In dām dagum þe hē dyde his sceápa gȳminge dum gregis sui curam gereret, Gr. D. 215, 9. [Hic am God de in min geming nam Jacob, Gen. and Ex. 2783.] IV. ruling, rule :-- Hēr onfēng Pilatus gȳminge ofer Jūdēas, Chr. P. 293, 23. V. caring, being anxious :-- Behealdad eów dæt gē ne gehefigien eówre heortan mid monigfaldre giéminge disse worolde attendite ut non graventur corda vestra in curis hujus vitae, Past. 129, 20. v. be-, um-gīming. giming

Related words: gīman;