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what is kept from observation or
knowledge, a secret, mystery
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  • Gerýna vel dígla sacramentum vel

    mysterium,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 47, 26.

  • Dyrne gerýna

    abdita (secretorum) arcana (produntur),

      An. Ox. 4216.

  • For foresmeá[gende] gerýna dígla

    ob indaganda secretorum archana,

    1505.

  • Ðys syndon þá hálgan gerýnu þe þá twégen wítegan gesáwon and gehýrdon,

      Nic. 19, 5: 11. 29.
what is beyond mere human comprehension, a mystery.
of speech (prophecy, allegory, &c. )
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  • Wé nestan ǽr hwæt se blinda wæs ; nú we magon ongytan hwæt ꝥ gerýne tácnaþ,

      Bl. H. 17, 14.

  • Gerýna

    oracula,

      An. Ox. 2535.
of actions, events, &c.
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  • Se Hǽlend his þegnum sǽde his þrowunga . . . hié ne mihton þá word ongeotan þæs heofonlican gerýnes. Bl. H. 17, 9.
what is beyond ordinary knowledge, an obscure subject
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  • Wé tódǽlað þá dagas þæs geáres þurh seofon, and swá wé becumað tó þám andgite swá myceles gerénes (y

    is written over the second

    e),
      Angl. viii. 302, 39.

  • Bissextus . . . wé wyllað nú ymbe his gerýnu smeágan,

      305, 41.

  • Iungum cnihtum geopenian ꝥ hig óðrum gecýðon þe his geréna ne cunnon,

      306, 17.
a mystic meaning
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  • Hé (Felix) ealle þá ðeóde æfter þám gerýne (-um, v. l. ) his noman

    (iuxta sui nominis sacramentum)

    fram wónesse álýsde,
      Bd. 2, 15; Sch. 176, 22.
in a theological sense,
a religious rite, sacrament of the church
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  • On þǽre cyricean biþ sungen ꝥ hálige gerýne, Bl.

    H.

      77, 16.

  • Þám gerýne onfón fullwihtes baþes,

    Bd.

    l,
      27; Sch. 76, 6.

  • Gerýne

    sacramento, i. mysterio (baptismatis),

      An. Ox. 2074.

  • Gemǽnsumiende gerýnæ

    communicans sacramentum (Dominicum),

    2141.

  • Hé sealde hi[m] ꝥ hálige gerýne Crístes líchaman and blódes,

      Hml. S. 30, 97.

  • Clǽne girýne

    sacrificium,

      Rtl. 109, 21.

  • Ðá gerýnu (-o, v. l.) þæs heofonlican cyninges

    sacra­menta caelestis regis,

      Bd. 2, 9 ; Sch. 143, 17 : Hml. S. 23 b, 112.

  • Ge­rýnum

    sacramentis (missarum ),

      An. Ox. 2875.

  • Gerýna

    sacramenta (catholicae fidei ),

    3218.

  • V a.

    the consecrated elements of the eucharist

    :-- Hé hi gesmyrode mid gehálgudum ele, and eác gehúslode mid þæs Hǽlendes gerýnum,
      Hml. S. 3, 80.
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v. ge-rýno, gerýnu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-rýne.” 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/49440.

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