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Take here ge-setednes in Dict., and add: [ge-setednes, ge-set[t]nes and ge-setenes might be taken separately, the former being connected with the past part., the latter with the infin. of ge-settan; cf. ge-sealdnes, ge-selenes, ge-sellan.]
position in reference to two or more objects
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  • Ic hæbbe án weorc mé tó gewissunge æfter steorrena gesetnyssum swá swá hí standað on heofonum. Hml. S. 5, 262.

  • Hí cwǽdon þæt ǽlc man beó ácenned be steorrena gesetnessum, and þurh heora ymbryna him wyrd gelimpe,

      Hml. Th. i. 110, 7.
combination, composition.
putting together of material, construction
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  • Ǽr middaneardes gesetnysse (constitutione), Hml. A. 70, 126. (1 a)

    a medical preparation

    (?) ; compositio :-- Genim þás ylcan wyrte gecnucude, lege tó þám sáre . . . eác úre ealdras cwǽdon ꝥ ðeós gesetednys heálícost fremede,
      Lch. i. 176, 10.
putting together of words,
a compound
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  • Þá synd on Grécisc kakosyntheton, vitiosa compositio, gecwedene, and synt lyðre gesetnyssa, swylce ic þus cweðe bonumaurum, þonne ic hyt sceolde þus tódǽlan

    bonum aurum,

      Angl. viii. 313, 26.
composition
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  • Barbarismum

    hig on heora gesetnyssa forbúgað,
      Angl. viii. 313, 18.
a composition, writing, work, narrative, treatise
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  • Hér is seó gesetenis Alexandres epistoles,

      Nar. 1, 1.

  • Gesetnys, racu

    textus (libelli Eugeniae),

      An. Ox. 4242.

  • Gesettnesse

    textu,

    3448.

  • Ne secge wé nán þincg níwes on þissere gesetnysse (cf. on þyssere béc þǽra hálgena þrowunga, 36),

      Hml. S. p. 4, 46.

  • On þǽre gesetnysse be worulde frymðe,

      Angl. viii. 307, 5.

  • Be þǽre gesetnysse of ðám gedwylde,

      Hml. A. 24, 5.

  • Wé geendiað þus ðás gesetnysse

    (homily),

      Hml. S. 15, 226: Hml. A. 44, 511.

  • Þá wísan láreówas áwriton be þǽre clǽnnysse mycele béc on manegum gesetnyssum,

      22, 197: 198.
  • ¶ of the scriptures,
the Old Testament
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  • Seó bóc

    (Ezra)

    ys geendebyrd on þissere gesetnysse,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 10, 41 : 11, 3.
the New Testament
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  • Hé

    (Matthew)

    ys se forma godspellere on þaére gesetnyse,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 12, 32 : 14, 15.
of the several books of the bible
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  • Isaias on his gesetnysse,

      Hml. A. 21, 188: Ælfc. T. Grn. 9, 8.
  • Daniel on his gesetnisse, 45.

  • Heó on ðǽra wítegena gesetnysse rǽdde,

      Hml. Th. i. 42, 20.
  • Of Mathees gesetnysse ge of Lucas, ii. 468, 13.

  • Hé (

    St. John)

    áwrát on wundorlicre gesetnesse,
      Hml. S. 15, 163,
    Ongann hé þá godspellican gesetnysse, ðus cweðende, Hml. Th. i. 358, 14: 300, 21.

  • Heora (

    the Sibyls')

    béc ne synd ná on úre gesetnissum on þǽre biblioþecan,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 10, 35.

  • Feówer godspelleras áwriton his ðrowunga on feower gesetnyssum,

      Hml. Th. i. 216, 19.
size, extent
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  • Gesetnes

    statura,

      An. Ox. 5311.

  • Hé

    (Ezechiel)

    áwrát áne bóc, micele on gesetnisse, swíðe deóp on andgite,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 9, 39.

  • Twelf wítegan (

    the minor prophets) . .

    . twelf béc áwriton be sumum dǽle lǽssan on gesetnysse, micele on andgitte,
      10, 9.
arrangement, scheme, figure of speech
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  • Gesetnisse

    dispositionis,

      Lk. p. 2, 8.

  • Æfter þissum hig gehleápað on metaplasmum, ꝥ ys ꝥ hig gewurðiað heora spǽce, and heora meterversa gesetnyssa and cyrtenlice scemata (vel figure) lexeos and dianoeas áscrutniað, lexeos beóð ðǽra worda gesetnyssa and

    dianoeas

    byð ꝥ andgit,
      Angl. viii. 313, 28-31.
an established practice, course, institution, institute
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  • In reogolum cyriclicre gesetnesse se behýdegæsta

    in ecclesiasticae institutionis regulis sollertissimus,

      Bd. 5, 20; Sch. 675, 17.

  • Cépan his mǽles and mid gesceáde his gesetnysse healdan,

      Hml. S. 16, 319.

  • Þára þeóda þeáwas sint swíþe ungelíca and heora gesetnessa swíþe mislica

    diversarum gentium mores inter se atque instituta discordant,

      Bt. 18, 2; F. 64, 22.

  • Gesettnessa,

      An. Ox. 247.

  • Monig nytlico ðing cyriclicra gesetnessa

    multa ecclesiae institutis utilia,

      Bd. 5, 20; Sch. 676, 1.

  • Man árǽrde cyrcan . . . and mynsterlice gesetnyssa,

      Hml. S. 26, 86.
an ordinance, a law, decree, statute
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  • Decretum, i. institutum, positum, consilium, placitum geþóht statutum laga, diffinitum gesetnes

    judicium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 80.
an ordinance of the civil or the ecclesiastical authority,
a law human or divine
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  • Folcrǽdenne sive ealles folces gesetnes

    lex,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 80.

  • Medríc(r)a gesetnyssa plebisscita, ríccra gesetnes senatus consultum, kyninga gesetnysse

    constitutio,

    i.
      20, 65-67.

  • Seó ealde gesetness

    the Mosaic law,

      Jud. 15 ; Thw. p. 159, 29.

  • Godcundre gesettnesse

    divinae sanctionis (praecepta),

      An. Ox. 424 : 1629.

  • For þǽre gesetnysse þe nán mann ne móste tó þám háde becuman búton of Aarones cynne,

      Hml. A. 16, 77.

  • Æfter Godes gesetnysse,

      19, 139 : 20, 151.

  • Ðá beóð scyldige ðe ðá gesetnysse (

    the injunction as to fasting)

    tóbrecaþ þǽre hálgan gelaðunge,
      Hml. Th. ii. 330, 35.

  • Hwæne þú forsáwe and hwæs

    (God's) gesetnysse (of the Mosaic law ),

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 15.

  • Þ ealle gebugon tó his hǽðenscipe and tó his gesetnyssum,

      Hml. S. 25, 17 : Ii, 24.

  • Tó Godes gesetnyssum,

      Hml. A. 6, 131.

  • Gesetnessum

    sanctionibus (decalogi),

      An. Ox. 842.

  • Áwritenum gesettnessum

    scriptis decretalibus, i. statutis,

    1966.

  • Gesettnessa

    statuta (apostolica),

    5143.

  • Gesetednessa,

      Hpt. Gl. 523, 27.
  • Ealle þá gesetnessa þe tó hearde wǽron hé gedyde líþran. Ors. 5, 12 ; S. 244, 14.

  • Rihtra dóma gesetenesse (-setnesse,

    v.l.) decreta iudiciorum,

      Bd. 2, 5 ; Sch. 132, 1.

  • Swylce hé ne cunne Crístes gesetnyssa. Móyses ús lǽrde on his gesetnissum,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 9 : Hml. A. 8, 198.
a settlement, an order with respect to property, in pl.
a will
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  • Heáhgeréfan gesetnysse

    legatum testamentum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 38.

  • Ic ðás gesettnesse sette gehweder ge for hígna lufon ge ðeára sáula ðe haer beforan hiora namon áuuritene siondon . . . þis is gesetnes Ósulfes and Bearnðrýðe,

      Txts. 444, 42-45.
an ordinance handed down to successive generations, a tradition
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  • Hwylc gesetenes (-setnes, v.l.) tó fylgeanne sý

    quae sequenda traditio,

      Bd. 2, 2; Sch. 114, 10.

  • Æfter gesetnisse ældra

    juxta traditionem seniorum,

      Mk. L. R. 7, 5.

  • Gesettnisse (lage,

      W.S.), Mt. R. 15, 2.

  • Hí heora seolfra þeáwas and gesetnesse (-setenesse, v.l.) betran dydon

    suas traditiones praeferrent,

      Bd. 2, 2; Sch. 113, 21 : 116, 13.
a natural law, order of providence
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  • Þá wildan deór be úres Drihtnes gesetnysse syndon mannum underþeódde. Hml. A. 64, 290.

  • Hé hæfð heora mearce gesette . . . Mid þám ilcan gerece is gereaht swíðe anlíc gewrixle þæs flódes and þæs ebban. Þá gesetennesse (gesetennes þa,

      MS.) hé
    lǽt standan þá hwíle þe hé wile, Bt. 21; S. 49, 26.
an order, a regulation
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  • Þá byrlas scencton be þæs cyninges gesetnysse

    (sicut rex statuerat),

      Hml. A. 93, 26.
instruction, what instructs
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  • Gesetnysse

    instrumenti, quod instruit,

      An. Ox. 1765 : 1675.
  • Gesettnysse, 437.

  • Hé férde tó gesetednysse and láre þæs gástlican lífes

    ad institutionem spiritalis vitae pergeret,

      Gr. D. 150, 22.
a purpose
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  • Gisetnise

    proposito,

      Rtl. 103, 30.

  • Gisetnisse

    propositum,

      104, 4.
Similar entries
v. folc-gesetness, riht-gesetness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-setnes.” 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/49646.

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