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ge-metgung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ge-metgung, e; f.
Moderation, temperance, a fit or proper measure, a direction, a regulation; moderatio, temperantia, modus, moderamen
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  • Wísdóm is se héhsta cræft, and se hæfþ on him feówer oðre cræftas, ðara is án wærscipe, óðer gemetgung, þridde is ellen, feórþe rihtwísnes wisdom is the highest virtue, and it has in it four other virtues, of which one is prudence, another temperance, the third is fortitude, and the fourth justice, Bt. 27, 2; Fox 96, 34, note. Ealla gesceafta onfóþ æt Gode endebyrdnesse, and andwlitan, and gemetgunge

    all creatures receive from God order, and form, and measure,

      Bt. 39, 5; Fox 218, 15, 20, 33.
  • Mid ðam gemetgunge ðæs gesceádes gefrætewod

    moderamine discretionis ornatus,

      Bd. 3, 5; S. 527, 42.
  • Swylce monige gemetgunge ðara rihtgelýfedra gehælde ðære Rómaniscan cyricean Angel-cynnes cyricum mid his láre brohte

    perplura Catholicæ observationis moderamina ecclesiis Anglorum sua doctrina contulit,

      3, 28; S. 560, 37.
  • Hí búton gemetgunge ðæt wín drincende wǽron

    they drank the wine without moderation,

      Ors. 2, 4; Bos. 45, 19.
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