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ge-flít, l. ge-flit,
Wright's OE grammar
§344;
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  • Geflit capistrinum. Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 33 :

    capestrinum,

      13, 60.

  • Compung and geflit

    concertatio,

      20, 40.

  • Geflit and gecíd divortium, 28, 26. Cavillum, cavillatio bismrung, geflit

    convitium,

      129, 68.

  • Geflite

    divortio,

      28, 14.
strife, contention in the abstract
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  • Nis þǽr

    (heaven)

    ege, ne geflit, ne yrre, ne nǽnig wiþer­weardnes,
      Bl. H. 25, 31.

  • Oferhýdo ond geflite and æfeste

    animositati, contentioni, inuidiae,

      Bd. 1, 14 ; Sch. 38, 24.

  • Gefeoht þe of geflite cymð betwux ceastergewarum

    bellum ciuile

    ,
      Hml. S. 25, 711.
a dispute, contest, difference,
in an unfavourable sense
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  • Geflit

    tumultus,

      Mt. L. 27, 24.

  • Geflitt (giflit, R.) áuorden uæs bituih Iudéum

    dissensio facta est inter Iudaeos,

      Jn. 10, 19.

  • Geflitt

    schisma,

      9, 16.

  • Lǽtað áweg ealle saca and ǽlc geflitt, and gehealdað þás tíd mid sibbe and mid sóðre lufe,

      Hml. Th. i. 180, 1.

  • Ðonne betweoxn eów bið yfel anda and geflitu (

    contentio

    ),
      Past. 345, 14.

  • Hié styrigað geflitu (-flietu, v.l.) and geciid

    rixae occasionem commovent,

      293, 20.

  • Geseah hé ðá mǽstan geflitu (-fleoto, v.l.) and gewinn þára werigra gásta

    uidit. . . maxima malig-norum spirituum certamina,

      Bd. 3, 19 ; . Sch. 278, 7.
where there is no ill-will
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  • Þæt Herebald fram ðám geflite

    (certamine) [a race ]

    hine áhebbe,
      Bd. 5, 6; Sch. 575, 16.
in a military sense
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  • Hié woldon . . . gefeohtan . . . and monig ígland áwéstan on ðǽm geflite,

      Ors. 3, 11 ; S. 144, 36.

  • On þǽre tíde wǽron Iudan on miclum geflite and on micelre unsibbe wið þá landleóde adversus incolas Iudaei atrocissima bella gesserunt, 6, 10; S. 266, l. Hié micel geflit hæfdon

    in arma surgentes,

      6. 34; S. 290, 24.
a contest with words, dispute, disputation, argument
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  • Áworden wæs geflit (giflitt, R.,

    contentio

    ) bituih him huelc hiora geseen woere mára,
      Lk. L. 22, 24.
  • Ꝥ geflit, p. 11. 3.

  • Geflites, tale

    disputationis, i. certationis,

      An. Ox. 2267.

  • On geflite

    certamine

    (v.
      Ald. 151, 35). Wrt. Voc. ii. 91. 8 : 19, 31.

  • Geflit

    conflictum (contra certantes arte magistros),

      91, 6.
  • Æfter þyssum wǽron manegu geflitu. Bl. H. 187, 7.

  • Geflitum

    conflictibus (disputans)

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 81, 25: 18, 27.
in a legal sense, a dispute that is to be settled by a judge,
a contested case
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  • Higa eóde of ðám geflite (cf. Higa wolde him oðflítan ðæt lond,

      169, 23), Cht. Th. 174, 2.

  • Hwí biþ elles ǽlce dæg swelc seófung and swelce geflitu and gemót and dómas

    unde forenses querimoniae

    ?,
      Bt. 26, 2 ; F. 92, 16.

  • Geflitum

    negotiis, An. Ox. 539I. Ðæt hé gesette óðre for hine tó démenne betweox ðám folce ymbe hira geflita (-o, v.l.) ut pro se alios adjurgia dirimenda constituat, Past. 131, 16. (5 a) figurative :-- In þám freóndlican geflite (contentione) þǽre wrixiendlican eádmódnesse þǽr eóde tó genóh rihtwís déma, ꝥ wæs se cniht þe wæs átogen of þám wætre, Gr. D. 116, 6. ¶ tó geflites :-- Tó geflites certatim, i. strenue,

      An. Ox. 106: 2232.

  • Ǽlc óþrum tó geflites

    (certatim),

    hú hé swýðust mæge, hýrsumige,
      R. Ben. 132, 2.

  • Tó geflites hé swincað on weorce

    certatim in opere laborantes,

      136, 15.
  • v. fyrn-geflit, samod-geflit, weorold-geflit.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-flít.” 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/47977.

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