Gīfer-nes

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gīfer-nes

Add: I. greediness for food, gluttony :-- Gīfernes gastri-margia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 16. Gȳfernes vel oferfil, i. 27, 21. (l) of persons :-- Syndon eahta heáfodleahtras . . . Ān is gecwæden gula, ꝥ is gȳfernyss on Englisc ; seó dēd ꝥ man yt ǣr tīman and drincd, odde hē tō micel nimd on ǣte odde on wǣte, Hml, S. 16, 268. Suā oft suā wē ūre hand dōd tō ūrum mūde for giéfernesse ofergemet per immoderatum usum dum manus ad cibum tenditur, Past. 313, 14. Tantalus de on þisse worulde ungemetlīce gīfre wæs, and him þǣr (in hell) ꝥ ilce yfel fyligde þæs gīfernesse, Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, l. 'On giéfernesse (ingluvie) dū rīcsasd ofer dā menniscan heortan. ' For dǣm dǣm de on giéfernesse ongietene (gulae deditos) beód, wile folgian firenlust . . . Sió wamb bid ādened mid fylle for giéfernesse (venter ingluvie extenditur), Past. 311, 2-12. Gīfernesse ingluviem (ventris), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 39. Manega mettas gegladiad gȳfernysse (gulam), Scint. 57, 4. Ic andette gīfernesse ǣtes and drences, ge ǣr tīde ge ofer tīde. Ic andette ǣlce gītsunga and æfest, Ll. Th. ii. 262, 25. (2) of animals :-- Heora (animals') willa tō nānum ōþrum þingum nis āþenod būton tō gīfernesse and tō wrǣnnesse quarum omnis ad explendam corporalem lacunam festinat intentio, Bt. 31, I ; F. 112, 8. Fræcum innoþes gȳfernesse [draco boves) gulosa ventris ingluvie (voraciter glutire solebat), An. Ox. 2445. II. greed of money, cupidity, covetousness, avarice :-- Gīfernesse philargiria [cf. gitsunge philargiria (the third of the deadly sins, Ald. 206, 31), 96, 67], Wrt. Voc. ii. 66, 29; 50, 20. Deóflice dǣda . . . on stalan and on strūdungan, on gītsungan and on gīfernessan, Ll. Th. i. 310, 17. Ne gē ne beón gewyrhtan stala ne strūdunga, ac strȳnad mid rihte. Scyldad eów wid gītsunga and wid gīfornessa . . . Scyldad eów wid gālscipas. . . , and wid oferfylle beorgad eów, Wlfst. 40, 6-13. ¶ In Bl. H. 163, 12 gifernes seems aa error. See ge-fērness. gifer-nes