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ge-sib

  • adjective
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Grammar
ge-sib, -sibb, -syb; adj.
Peaceable, near, related, familiar; pācĭfĭcus, cognātus, prŏpinquus, fămĭliāris
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  • Ne bearh nú for oft gesibb gesibbum ðý má ðe fremdum

    too often now has a kinsman no more protected a kinsman than a stranger,

      Swt. A. S. Rdr. 107, 75.
  • Sylle swá gesibre handa swá fremdre

    give to a relation or to a stranger,

      Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ii. 114, 7.
  • Nǽnig mon ne sceal lufian ne géman his gesibbes gif ...

    no man shall love or be mindful of his relative if ...,

      Blickl. Homl. 23, 17.
  • Gisibbe

    cognatos,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 14, 12.
  • Tǽlende dígellíce gesibne his

    dētrăhentem sēcrēto proxĭmo suo,

      Ps. Spl. 100, 5.
  • Ðe him gesibbe wǽron

    who were related to him,

    Job
      Thw. 167, 3.
  • Gesibbe ǽrendracan cādūcĕātōres vel

    pācĭfĭci,

      Ælfc. Gl. 53; Som. 66, 79; Wrt. Voc. 36, 6.
  • Hý habbaþ freónda ðý má swǽsra and gesibbra

    they will have more friends dear and near,

      Exon. 107 a; Th. 408, 34; Rä. 27, 22: 84 a; Th. 317, 21; Mód. 69.
  • Snotor mid gesibbum sécean wolde Cananea land

    the sagacious would seek the Canaanites' land with his kinsfolk,

      Cd. 83; Th. 104, 8; Gen. 1738: 79; Th. 97, 13; Gen. 1612.
  • Gesibbra ærfeweard

    a nearer heir,

      Th. Chart. 483, 16.
  • Sweolcum swelce him ðonne gesibbast wǽre

    to such as may then be nearest of kin to him,

      105, 29.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. gisibbo consanguineus.]
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v.  ge-syb.
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