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  • Gelimp casus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 18, 56:

    eventus,

      30, 40.
  • Gelimpa

    eventuum,

      31, 72.
  • Gewyrdelicum gelimpe

    fortuitu casu,

      An. Ox. 3793.
  • Mid gesǽligum gelimpum

    fortuitis casibus,

    4186.
what happens in the case of a person, lot, hap, fortune
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  • Þ endenécste gelimp

    suprema sors,

      An. Ox. 1835.
  • Hé on earfoðnyssum bið geðyldig and on gódum gelimpum (in prosperity) ne forlǽt his ánrǽdnesse, Wlfst. 51, 23: Hml. S. I. 221. II a.

    good fortune, success

    :-- Wá sceolon ǽigðer ge on gelimpe ge on ungelimpe cweðan : 'Ic herige mínne
      Drihten,' Hml. Th. i. 252, 12 : Hml. S. 16, 251.
  • Hé wæs suíde úpáhafen on his móde for his anwalde and for his gelimpe successu suae potestatis elevatus. Past. 39, 14. II b. misfortune, mishap, hard lot, ill case :-- Sý hé gelícum gelimpe ámánsumad, and on gelícre wrace dǽdbéte

    similem sortiatur excommunicationis vindictam,

      R. Ben. 50, 13.
  • Þǽr eardode sum man Garganus geháten: of his gelimpe (

    he was accidentally shot)

    wearð seó dún swá gecíged,
      Hml. Th. i. 502, II. Hé þá
    hire árehte ealle his gelymp, and æt þáre sprǽcan ende him feóllon teáras of ðám eágum, Ap. Th. 15, 26.
what happens in the case of a thing, event, outcome
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  • Gelimp wásan euentum (i.

    quod euenit) rei (praestolante),

      An. Ox. 2165.
in a technical sense,
accident
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  • Pronomen hæfð syx

    accidentia,

    þæt synd syx gelimp,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 92, 8 : 242, 15.
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v. mis-gelimp, un-gelimp, weas-gelimp.
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