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ge-siht

  • noun [ feminine ]
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ge-siht, -sihþ, -siehþ, -syhþ, -sihtþ, e; f.
Sight, power of seeing, vision, something seen, aspect, respect; visus, acies oculorum, visio, aspectus, conspectus, respectus
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  • Se ord on here oððe scearp gesihþ

    acies,

      Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 4, 14.

  • Yfel gesihþ

    oculus malus,

      Mk. Bos. 7, 22.

  • Bodian blindum gesihþe

    prædicare cæcis visum,

      Lk. Bos. 4, 18: Homl. Th. i. 64, 22: Blickl. Homl. 155, 5.

  • Ðú wást ðæt gesiht and gehérnes ongitaþ ðone líchoman ðæs monnes

    thou knowest that sight and hearing perceive the body of a man,

      Bt. 41, 4; Fox 252, 6.

  • Eágena gesihþ

    eye-sight,

      Andr. Kmbl. 60; An. 30: Ps. Th. 93, 9.

  • Forhwan woldest ðú ðínre gesihþe me wyrnan

    quid avertis faciem tuam a me?

      87, 14.

  • He wundrode æfter ðære gesihþe

    he wondered at the sight,

      Blickl. Homl. 153, 36: 215, 31.

  • Forht ic wæs for ðære fægran gesyhþe

    terrified I was at the fair sight,

    Rood
      Kmbl. 41; Kr. 21.

  • Ðæt he sume gesihtþe geseah

    quod visionem vidisset,

      Lk. Bos. 1, 22.

  • Engla gesihþe

    visionem angelorum,

      24, 23.

  • Þurh nihtlíce gesihþ

    in a vision of the night,

      Shrn. 63, 16: Lchdm. iii. 204, 31.

  • Ðære uplícan sibbe gesiehþ the sight of the peace above, Past. 21; Swt. 161, 16; Hat. MS. On ealles ðæs folces gesihþe

    in the sight of all the people,

      Homl. Th. i. 60, 25: Blickl. Homl. 121, 17: 201, 5.

  • On ðínre gesyhþe in conspectu tuo, Ps. Th. 55, 7: 137, 1: Cd. 49; Th. 63, 20; Gen. 1035 Of heora gesihþum

    from their sight,

      Jud. 16, 3.

  • Bútan gesyhþe ǽrfæstnesse

    sine respectu pietatis,

      Bd. 4, 12 ; S. 580, 41.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-siht.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/16014.

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