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to separate.
of material objects,
to form a line of separation between
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  • Pirifliát and scipfliót, ðá gesceádað þæt land westan and eástan,

      C. D. ii. 86, 26.
to arrange
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  • Gesceáden gisomnung

    distincta congeries,

      Mt. p. 4, 3.
to scatter, shed
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  • Genim þás wyrte tó dúste gecnucude, gesceád (-scád,

    v.l.

    ) tó ðám sáre,
      Lch, i. 290, 12.
non-material objects,
to distinguish
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  • Ðú ðe dæg gisceádas (discernis) from næhte, dédo ússa from ðióstra gisceád

    (distingue)

    miste,
      Rtl. 36, 29.
to deprive of
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  • Hígo ðín ǽlcum mægne gisceádest

    familiam tuam omni virtute destitui(s)

    ], Rtl. 31, 15.
of mental operations.
to expound
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  • Þ gelíc ge-sceádeð

    similitudinem exponit,

      Lk. p. 8, 15.
to write out a narrative
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  • Godspel wére gesceáden

    euangelium describturum,

      Lk. p. 3, ll.
to decree: — Gescádað decernunt, Kent.
Gl. 246.
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v. tó-gesceádan
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sceádan.” 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/49504.

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