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gíming, gímung.
Take here gémung in Dict., and add:
a taiking care of a person, entertaining, an entertainment, a wedding feast, nup-ials. v. gíman;
3. [Cf. O. Sax. góma; pl. a marriage feast; nuptiae
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  • Hé at them gómum was (= se Hǽlend geceiged wæs tó ðǽm færmum ł hǽmdum (ad nubtias),

      Jn. L. 2, 2), Hél. 2002
    ]:-- Gémung

    nuptias

    (a gloss on
      Mt. 22, 2.

  • Cf. sé ðe dyde ðá færmo ł brýdlópa

    qui fecit nubtias

    ,
      Mt. L. 22, 2), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, II. Gíming, 60, 52.

  • Gémung

    nuptiae

    , i.
      288, 84.

  • Tó gémungum þæs heofonlican brýdguman

    ad nuptias sponsi caelestis

    ,
      Bd. 3, 24 ; Sch. 311, 9. [Oð
    þæne dæg incre geámungæ, Hml. A. 132, 525.
  • Tó hwan forhǽle þú ús þíne gémunga 135, 650.]
care, management
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  • Þám gewunode hé bringan gréne wyrta, and eft hweorfan tó þǽre gýmingce (gíminge,

    v. l.) his wyrt-geardes (ad curam horti ),

      Gr. D. 181, 4.
care, keeping, guarding
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  • Wé þe ús befæst is seó gýming Godes folces,

      Ll. Th. ii. 402, 10.

  • In ðám dagum þe hé dyde his sceápa gýminge

    dum gregis sui curam gereret

    ,
      Gr. D. 215, 9.
    [Hic am God ðe in min geming nam Jacob, Gen. and Ex. 2783.]
ruling, rule
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  • Hér onféng Pilatus gýminge ofer Júdéas,

      Chr. P. 293, 23.
caring, being anxious
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  • Behealdað eów ðæt gé ne gehefigien eówre heortan mid monigfaldre giéminge ðisse worolde

    attendite ut non graventur corda vestra in curis hujus vitae

    ,
      Past. 129, 20.
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v. be-gíming, um-gíming.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gíming.” 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/50785.

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