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Wright's OE grammar
§12; §240; §295; §391; §563; §574;
Add: a masc. pl. ge-sceaftas occurs.
what is created,
all created things, creation
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  • Twá ðing syndon; án is Scyppend, óðer is gesceaft . . . þæt is gesceaft, þæt se sóða Scyppend gesceóp. Þæt sind ǽrest heofonas, and englas . . . , and syððan þeós eorðe . . . and sǽ. . . Nú ealle ðás ðing synd mid ánum naman genemnode gesceaft, Hml. Th. i. 276, 8-14. (l a) creation in respect to this world only,

    the (created) world

    :-- Gif se man gesihð Godes leóht, þonne bið þæt gesceaft swíðe nearu geðúht,
      Hml. Th. ii. 186, 7.

  • Swylce gedréfednessa swylce ne gewurdon of frymðe þǽre gesceafte (cf. of middangeardes fruman, Mt. 24, 21) þe God gesceóp (

    ab initio creaturae quam condidit Deus),

      Mk. 13, 19.

  • Ealre eorþcundre gesceafte

    totius terrestris creaturae (possessor

    (Adam)),
      An. Ox. 692.
with collective force,
creation, created objects of. a particular kind,
of rational creatures
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  • 'Bodiað eallum gesceafte'; ac mid þám naman is se mann ána getácnod,

      Hml. Th. i. 302, 12.
  • Bodiað godspell ealre gesceafte,Mk. 16, 15.

  • Ús gedafenað tó dónne dugeðe mennjscum gesceafte

    (to all men).

      Hml. Th. ii. 318, 17.
of other things
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  • Hwí eów þince þǽre ungesceadwísan gesceafte gód betere þonne eówer ágen gód,

      Bt. 13; F. 40, 5.

  • Ðæt hé anweald hæbbe . . . ofer eallum gesceafte (cf. hé sig . . . ofer ealle gesceafta

    praesit . . . universae terrae,

      Gen. l, 26), Hex. 18, 17.
a created thing, a creature
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  • Nis nán ðing on gesceaftum him bedíglod,

      Hml. Th. i. 334, 14.
  • (3 a) of rational beings

    Se deófol wyrð áflýmed fram þǽre menniscan gesceafte, þe ǽr ðurh Adam forworht wæs, and ðám hálgum gáste byð eardungstów on þám menn gerýmed,

      Wlfst. 34, I.

  • Forhtiaþ ealle gesceafta, ge heofonware ge eorþware,

      Bl. H. n, 4.

  • Eallum wísfæstum gesceaftum écne dóm gesetton,

      121, 20.
  • (3 b) of other things

    Gif hwá his wæccan æt ænigum wylle hæbbe, oððe æt ænigre óðre gesceafte

    (creaturam),

      Ll. Th. ii. 210, 12.

  • Þára gimma oððe ǽniges þára deádlicena ðinga ðe gesceádwísnesse næfþ . . . þeáh hié Godes gesceafta sién,

      Bt. 13; F. 40, 9.

  • Stánas sind gesceafta,

      Hml. Th. i. 302, 13.

  • Manna líchaman forealdiað swá swá óðre gescæaftas ealdiað,

      Solil. H. 10, 8: 9, 12.

  • Ðurh ðá gesceaftu ðe hé gesceóp,

      Hex. 10, 13: Bt. 39, 13; F. 234, 22, 24.
one of the four elements
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  • Þ unandgytfulle gesceaft þæs wætres elementum irratiortabile, Gr. D. 194, 7: 91, II. Hit of ungelícre gesceafte (from water, not fire) gewurde, 220, 2: Angl. vii. 48, 456. De elementis. Ðeós lyft ys án ðǽra feówer gesceafta, þe ǽlc líchamlic ðing on wunað. Feówer gesceafta synd . . .

    aer, ignis, terra, aqua,

      Lch. iii. 272, 11-15 : Bt. 33, 43 F. 130, 20.

  • Swylce ðá gesceafta (se lég and se wind) him betweónan gefeohtan sceoldan,

      Bl. H. . 221, 14.

  • Úre líchoma wæs gesceapen of feówer gesceaftum,

      35, 12.
what is shaped, arranged, ordered
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  • Conditio, i. status, procreatio, natura, sors, regtila, lex, rectitudo

    gescæp, gewyrd, gescæft, gebyrd,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 63.
the external condition, state, position of an object
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  • Nǽnig eft cymeð hider þæt mannum secge, hwylc sý meotodes gesceaft

    (what heaven is like),

    sigefolca gesetu, þǽr hé sylfa wunað,
      Gn. C. 65.

  • Hé gelógode on þǽre heofonlican gesceafte, þæt is on heofona ríce, engla weredu,

      Wlfst. 8, l.
the internal condition, nature, constitution of an object
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  • Sió geðyld is gesett tó hierde úrre gesceafte

    custodem conditionis nostrae patientiam esse Dominus monstravit,

      Past. 220, 4.

  • On ðæs líchoman gesceafte wé underféngon ealle ðá ðénunga ðe wé nú ðiówiað

    in corporis positione accipimus quod in actione servemus,

      233, 9.

  • Ne mæg mín líchoman wið þás lǽnan gesceaft deáð gedǽlan (

    my body cannot separate death from this frail condition natural to it)

    ac hé geureósan sceal,
      Gú. 342.

  • Heó sægde ymb hyre sylfre gesceaft: Is mín módor cynnes þæs deórestan,

      Rä.34, 8.

  • On rihtne (-re ?) gesceaft,

      Dan. 366.

  • Hé (God) mid his ágenre mihte geglengde ꝥ gér mid feówrum gesceaftum (the four seasons),

      Angl. viii. 299, 19. (2 a) of physical condition, sex :-- In gescæf[te
    ] téderlicum

    in sexu fragili,

      Rtl. 51, 7.

  • Gesceafta ne beóð for nánum oðran þinge ástealde bútan for bearnteáme ánum,

      Hml. A. 20, 160.
what is shaped as a persons lot, lot, fate, condition of life
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  • For hwám winneð þis wæter . . ., dreógeð deóp gesceaft

    (drees a hard weird),

      Sal. 393 : 248.

  • Forgietan him þára geócran gesceafta,

      Gn. Ex. 182.
a
condition imposed by providence, order of providence
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  • Ðá ðe him underðiédde beóð ðurh Godes gesceafte

    eos quos per conditionem tenet subditos,

      Past. 201, 18.

  • Heofontorht swegl gescyndeð in gesceaft Godes (

    in accordance with God's order

    ] under foldan fæðm, Sch. 74.
ordered course of events
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  • Wyrda gesceaft,

      Dan. 132: Wand. 107.
Etymology
[O.H.Ger. ge-skaft forma, figmentum, conditio. "]
Similar entries
v. eald-, wæter-gesceaft, and cf. ge-sceap, ge-sceapennys
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sceaft.” 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/49516.

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