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the time of a person's birth
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  • Ymbe nigon hund wintra and nigon and seoxtig ðæs ðe Drihtnes gebyrdtíde wæs. C.D. iii. 50, 9.

  • Fram gebyrdtíde (-a, An. Ox. 2842) iugeðe

    ab ipsa cunabulorum temeritudine,

      Hpt. Gl. 473, 7.
  • Of úres Drihtnes gebyrdtíde tó þám ende. Wlfst. 312, 2.

  • Ðis wæs gedón ðý geáre ðe wæs ágán fram Crístes gebyrdtíde nigon hund wintra and hundnigontig wintra,

      C.D. iii. 255, 22.

  • Gebyrðtíde,

      256, 18.

  • Fram Abrahames ácennednesse forð oð Móyses gebyrdtídu ... fram Móyses gebyrdtíde forð tó Salomones gebyrde, Angl. xi. 9, 7-11. I a.

    the day of Christ's birth and the days following up to Twelfth-night

    (cf. II a) :-- On ðám forman dæge his gebyrdtíde hé wearð æteówed þrým hyrdum,
      Hml. Th. i. 104, 30.

  • Wearð hé on þám eahtoðan dæge his gebyrdtíde ymbsniden,

      94, 19.
the anniversary of a person's birth, birthday
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  • xl. nihta ǽr Geólum (middan wintra, úres Dryhtnes gebyrdtíde,

    v.ll.) xl. diebus ante Natale Domini,

      Ll. Th. ii. 162, 12.

  • Ǽr Crístes gebrydtíde,

      Bd. 4, 30; Sch. 535, 21.

  • Hí hæfdon on ðám tíman micele blisse on heora gebyrdtídum, Hml. Th. i. 480, 29. II a.

    one of the days between Christmas-day and Twelfth-night, [v. I a. and cf. Her segð ymb Drihtnes gebyrd ymb þa xii niht his tíde, Lch. iii. 164, 13, and see Hml. Th. i. 94, 19 above. ]

    :-- Hé cymð tó ús on þǽre þriddan gebyrtíde,
      Vis. Lfc. 22.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gebyrd-tíd.” 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/47397.

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