On-setness
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-setness
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- on-setness
- f. I. (cf. settan) constitution, appointment:--From onsetnisse middangeardes a constitutione mundi, Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 11, 50. II. (cf. sittan) ambush, artifice, plot:--Allo onsetnisse fióndes omnes insidias inimici, Rtl. 121, 40.