On-setenness

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-setenness

According to the Old English Dictionary:

on-setenness
Substitute: on-seteness, -setness. I. laying on, imposition :-- Fram þåm rihtgeleáffullum bisceope onsetnesse (manus impositioni) and sume gebede beón getrymede, Ll. Th. ii. 232, 19. Þurh biscopa handa onsetenesse. Shrn. 85, 19 (in Dict.) II. institution. Take here Lk. L. R. II. 50 (from on-setness; I. in Dict.). on-setenness
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