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hand-gewrit

  • noun [ neuter ]
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[The reference for the last passage is Hml. Th. i. 448, 14.]
handwriting, autograph, signature (cf.
N. E. D. hand-writ)
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  • Sóðne geleáfan hé wæs andettende and mid his handgewrite (

    cum subscriptione sua

    ) getrymede,
      Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 667, 9.
a document in a person's own handwriting
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  • ' Þá deóflu habbað him on hande mín ágen handgewryt' . . . Cóm se deófol . . . þá cwæð se hálga wer, ' Wé clypiað tó ðám Hǽlende . . . oð ꝥ þú ꝥ handgewryt ágife'. . . Æfter fyrste feól ꝥ ylce gewryt of þǽre lyfte . . . Se biscop áxode one cnapan gif hé oncneówe ꝥ gewryt. Hé cwæð, ' Ic oncnáwe þás cartar, þis ic sylf áwrát',

      Hml. S. 3, 423-457.
  • Drihten sende his ágen handgewrit on Ses Petrus heáhaltare . . . Ðá wæs þæt gewrit áwriten mid gyldenum stafum,

      Wlfst. 212, 3.
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  • hand-gewrit, n.