, ge-reccedness. Add: I. history :-- Historia, þæt is gerecednyss (-recced-, v. l.) ; mid þǽre man áwrít and gerehð þá ðing and þá dǽda þe wǽron gedóne on ealdum dagum and ús dyrne wǽron.Ǽlfc. Gr. Z. 296, 8. [Æfter] gerecednesse, gástlicum angite . . . secundum kistoriam, allegoriam . . . , An. Ox. 181. la. a history, story, narrative :-- Her onginneð seó gerecednes be Antioche . , . and be Apollonige, Ap. Th. l, l. þǽreǽrran gerecednyssa prioris instrument!; the Old Testament, An. Ox. 1676. Fiþerdǽledre gerecednysse (the gospel s), 1796- Cyrclicere gerecednysse ecclesiastic historiae, 2273. Mid witiendlicere gerecednysse propketica relatione, 1585 : 3142. Of gereccednysse (spelle, v.l. , relatione) Honorates, Gr. D. 134, 13. On ðǽre ealdon gereccednysse in the Old Testament, Hml. Th. ii. 60, 8. Gecyndboca gerecednesse geneseos relatuta i. relationem, An. Ox. 51. We ne wrítað ná mare buton þá nacedan gerecednisse, Ælfc. T. Grn. 23, 4. Swá swá gé rǽdað on eowrumgerecednyssum, Hml. S. 5, 177. II. explanation, exposition, interpretation :-- Hé sylð his gife ðám ðe hé wile . . . sumum men he forgifð gereccednysse mislicra sprǽca (ali datur interpretatio sermonum, l Cor. 12, 10), Hml. Th. i. 322, 29. II a. an explanation :-- Gerecednessum explanationibus, An. Ox. 1082. III. direction :-- On gerecednesse heortan in directione cordis, Ps. Rdr. 118, 7.