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operative action, operation, v. weall-geweorc,
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working.
making of material objects
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  • Hé þǽr hræde geweorce

    (citato opere) of treówe cyricean getimbrede, Bd. 2, 14; Sch. 170, 9. (1 a) with gen. of object :-- Figmenta, i. plasmatio hominum

    (cf. De figmento: de plasmatione hominis,
      Ld. Gl. H. 36, 164) geweorc, Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 47.

  • Geweorce (

    in renim visibilium) plaslica,

      An. Ox. 5222.

  • Fram þæs temples geweorce tó Cristes ðrowunge

    from the building of the temple to the crucifixion,

      Angl. xi. 9, 31.

  • Fram fremðe middangeardes oð Róme burhge geweorc,

      Angl. xi. 5, 19.

  • Oþ þaes temples geweorc,

      9, 17.
doing of operations
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  • Sé þe Drihtne hýreð and hys willan wyrceð: wel him bæs geweorkes,

      Hy. 2, 11.

  • Þurh his wundra geweorc

    through his doing miracles,

      Gú. 500. v. frumgeweorc.
in a collective sense,
work, doings
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  • Woldon þa gigántas tóbrecan ðone heofon under him (Jove). Ðá sceolde hé sende lýgetu and windas and tówyrpan eall hira geweorc mid

    lacessenteis coelum gigantes benigna fortitudo deposuit,

      Bt. 35, 4; F. 162, 14.
work, labour, any form of long-sustained or
habitual activity
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  • Gýme gafolswán ꝥ hé æfter sticunge his slyhtswýn wel behweorfe, sæncge, ðonne bið hé ful wel gewyrces wyrðe,

      Ll. Th. i. 436, 17.

  • Hwanon fiscere ancgel . . . ? nis hit of mínon geweorce ?,

      Coll. M. 30, 35.

  • Ꝥ hí férdon on þæt geweorc þæs Godes wordes,

      Bd. l, 23; Sch. 50, l. v.
    ǽfen-, brycg-, ealu-, fasten-, land-, stán-, sulh-, tigel-
, timber-, weall-
, web-geweorc. IV a. a particular case of labour
, labour for a particular object
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  • Þis is þǽre bricce geweorc on Hrouecǽstre

    this is the work that has to be done on the bridge at Rochester,

      C. D. B. iii. 659, l. v. tigel-geweorc
. IV b.
workmanship
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  • Ðǽr wæs cyrice geworht and getimbrad wundorlices geweorces

    (mirandi operis

    ),
      Bd. 1, 7; Sch. 27, 7.

  • Án gylden calic swíðe wundorlices geworces,

      Chr. 1058 ; P. 189, 20.
a work, deed, action, v. gúþ-, níþ-, undern-, wuldor-, wundor-geweorc,
a work, what is made
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  • Weblic gewurc

    textrinum opus,

      Hpt. Gl. 431, 4.

  • Þá. micclan mǽrða, ꝥ syndan ðá geweorc þe Alexander hét gewyrcean magna insignia que Alexander operari jusserat, Nar. 33, 20. v. græft-, heáh-, ofer-geweorc. VI a.

    a (person's) work

    (with gen. of agene or tool) :-- Beaduscrúda betst, Wélandes geweorc,
      B. 455: Vald. 1, 2.

  • Godes geweorc,

      Gen. 604.

  • Énta geweorc,

      Wand. 87: Gn. C. 2.

  • Giganta geweorc,

      B. 1562.
  • Wundorsmiða geweorc, 1681.

  • Carcernes duru, homra geweorc,

      Jul. 237.

  • Eall his ágen geweorc Drihten bletsige

    benedicite Dominum omnia opera ejus.

      Ps. Th. 102, 21.

  • His ciricean, his ágen geweorc (cf. hé hié mid his sylfes handum geworhte, 14),

      Bl. H. 197, 7.
  • v. ǽr-, eald-, fyrn-, hand-geweorc. VI b. of buildings :-- Híí

  • Wiðin-nan þám níwan geweorce,

      Hml. S. 21, 23.

  • Ceastra, . . . weallstána geweorc, Gn. C. 3. v. súþ-, templ-, treów-geweorc. VI c. what is wrought, material prepared by labour :-- Templ of ísernum geweorcum and of ǽrenum geworht

    templum aereo et ferreo opere constructum,

      Nar. 37, 23.
Similar entries
v. ál-geweorc, ár-geweorc, feþer-geweorc, flán-geweorc, gold-geweorc, stán-geweorc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-weorc.” 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/50438.

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