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dæg

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Dele daga, an; m., and add: inst. dæg, dæge; pl. gen. daga, dagena.
day, period of twenty-four hours
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  • Wé habbað oft gehýred þæt men hátað þysne dæg geáres dæg, swylce þes dæg fyrmest sý on geáres ymbryne,

      Hml. Th. i. 98, 17.
  • Ys on bócum geteald tó ánumdæge fram þǽre sunnan úpgange oð ꝥ heó eft becume þǽr heó ǽr úp stáh on þám fæce synd getealde feówer and twénti tída,

      Lch. iii. 236, 3.
  • On þám forman dæge dagena ealra,

      Hy. S. 4, 2.
  • Dæge ǽr

    pridie,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 50.
  • Ðá cóm se arceb̃ fram Róme áne dæge ǽr Sc̃s Petrus mæsseǽfene,

      Chr. 1048; P. 172, 3.
  • Fram dæge tó dæge,

      Wlfst. 79, 12: Hml. S. 23, 33.
  • Ðá ðe ǽlce dæg symblað,

      Past. 309, 8: Ors. 2, 6; S. 88, 11.
  • Farað six dagas simble ymbe þá burh ǽlce dæg ǽne (

    semel per diem

    ),
      Jos. 6, 3, 12: Lch. ii. 108, 6: Bt. 26, 2; F. 92, 14.
  • Hé ǽlce dæge symblede,

      Past. 309, 5.
  • Hé sǽde þæt hé þone dæg forlure þe hé nóht tó góde on ne gedyde,

      Chr. 81; P. 8, 7.
  • Þrý dagas wǽron ǽr þám dæge bútan sunnan and mónan,

      Lch. iii. 238, 19.
  • ii. mónðas and .xxi. daga,
      Chr. 643; P. 27, 34.
  • Mǽstra daga ǽlce,

      894; P. 84, 29.
  • Seofon dagena fæsten, Hml. Th. i. 434, 21. I a.

    day (as in one day), time

    of an occurrence :-- Ánes dæges þe abbot eóde into capitulan,
      Chr. 1083; P. 214, 22.
  • Þá sume dæge rád se cyng be þǽre eǽ,

      896; P. 89, 11.
  • Hyt wæs þá on dæg restedæg

    it was the sabbath at that time,

      Nic. 7, 5.
  • Hyt wæs on dæg þá gé mé beclýsdon

    it was at the time when you shut me up,

      10, 35: Chr. 1083; P. 215, 7.
  • Oþ þisne andweardan dæg up to the present time, 851; P. 64, 23. (See also tó dæge, dæg under tó.) In dægum hungres

    in diebus famis,

      Ps. Srt. 36, 19.
day as opposed to night
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  • Ðá hwíle ðe se rodor ǽne betyrnð gǽð forð feówor and twéntig tída, ðæt is ealles án dæg and án niht,

      Hex. 8, 32.
  • Áþiéstrode sió sunne áne tíd dæges, Chr. 879; P. 76, 25. Matutinum úhttíd

    sive

    beforan dæge,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 64.
  • Geé*-*fenedan deige

    advesperescente die,

      Kent. Gl. 186.
  • Ðonne hit neálǽcð dæge, ðonne singð se cocc smælor,

      Past. 461, 3.
  • Ꝥ Sc̃s Petrus on dæge folce sǽde, þonne wrát Sc̃s Marcus ꝥ on niht,

      Shrn. 74, 19.
  • Gé hwyrfað niht tó dæge,

      Wlfst. 47, 8.
  • Eall swá þicce is þeó heofon mid steorrum áfylled on dæg swá on niht . . . Wé hátað ǽnne dæg fram sunnan úp*-*gange oð ǽfen,

      Lch. iii. 234, 31-236, 2.
day, time.
lifetime
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  • Ðæt hió hæbbe ðæt land hire dæg . . . and efter hire dæge geselle hit . . . ðám hírode,

      C. D. ii. 58, 22.
  • Tó syllanne on dæge and æfter dæge (in his lifetime and after it) þám þe him leófust sý, iv. 117, 20. ¶

    in pl. days

    of life :-- Swegen geendode his dagas,
      Chr. 1014; P. 144, 27.
time during which an office is held,
reign of a king
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  • Ic wearð ásend on Æþelrédes dæge cyninges tó sumum mynstre,

      Hml. Th. i. 2, 14.
  • Féng Æþelbryht tó þám ríce . . . on his dæge cuóm micel sciphere,

      Chr. 860; P. 68, 2.
  • Mauricius and Valentines onféngon ríce, and rícsodon .vii. winter; and on hiera dagum Hengest and Horsa gesóhton Bretene,

      449; P. 12, 5.
  • On þrióra consula dæge cóm Hasterbal,

      Ors. S. 4, 10.
  • On þára twégea consula dæge, 3, 6; S. 108, 22. ¶

    in pl. days of a reign :-- On his (Beorhtric )

    dagum cuómon ǽrest .iii. scipu,
      Chr. 787; P. 54, 4.
time during which something exists
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  • Hé geseah þá ceastre and cwæð: 'Eálá, gif þú wistest on þysum þínum dæge,' Lk. 19, 42. v. ár, bæd-, bebod-, bén-, ceáp-, cípe-, clǽn*-*sung-, eáster-, eáster-freóls-, foran-, fugol-, gearwung-, gefyrn-, gereord-, hádung-, heáhfreóls-, heáhmæsse-, offrung-, palm-, reste-, resten[d]-, swǽsend-, sweotolung-, swíg-, teóþung-, þeorf-, weorþung-, wól-, ymbren*-*dæg; dæges.
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  • dæg, n.