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moderation, temperance, v. ge-metgian;
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  • Temperantia,

    ꝥ is gemetegung . . . witodlíce gemetegung is eallra mægena módor,
      Hml. S. I. 161 : Wlfst. 247, 15.

  • Sam hí þyrfon, sam hí ne þurfon, hí willaþ þeáh. Hwǽr is ðonne seó gemetgung?,

      Bt. 26, 2; F. 92, 31.
  • I a. moderation in expenditure, frugality. Cf. ge-metfæst,
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  • Spærnysse, gemetgunge

    frugalitatis,

      An. Ox. 2122.
management, regulation, v. ge-metgian; III
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  • Ðæt mon mid micelre gemetgnnge ðreáunga gemetgie

    ut magno moderamine correptio tem-peretur,

      Past. 159, 3.

  • Gemetegunge

    moderamen (imperil eidem regendum commisit

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      An. Ox. 4996.

  • II a. a regulation, an arrangement :-- Ðæt wæs wundeilicu gemetgung ðætte ðá ðá hé him selfum wæs lytel geðúht, ðá wæs hé Gode micel geðúht

    miro autem modo cum apud se parvulus, apud Deum magnus apparuit,

      Past. 113, 16.

  • God dǽlþ manega and mistlice gemetgunga eallum his gesceaftum and welt eallra

    multiplicem rebus gerendis modum statuit,

      Bt. 39, 5 ; F. 218, 20.

  • Sió wyrd dǽlþ eallum gesceaftum andwlitan and stówa and tída and gemetgunga

    fatum singula digerit in motum, locis, formis, ac temporibus distributa,

      F. 218, 33.
fixing of measure or amount, measuring. v. ge-metgian; IV
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  • Hine God gesette tó ðǽm ðæt hé gemetlíce gedǽle ðone hwǽte. Ðurh ðá gemetgunge ðaes hwǽtes is getácnod gemetlico word

    per mensuram tritici exprimitur modus verbi,

      Past. 459, 13.
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v. un-gemetgung.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-metgung.” 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/48898.

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