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the quality of being like or
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  • Swá micel gelícnys is on ðyssere Hálgan Ðrynnysse, þæt se Fæder nis ná máre þonne se Sunu on ðǽre godcundnysse, ne se Sunu nis ná máre þonne se Hálga Gást; ne nán heora án nis ná lǽsse þonne eall seó Ðrynnys,

      Hml. Th. i. 282, 32.
that which resembles an object, a like shape, a semblance
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  • Ne wæs þæt ná fugul ána, ac þǽr wæs ǽghwylces ánra gelícnes horses and monnes, hundes and fugles, and eác wífes wlite,

      Rä. 37, 10.

  • Þú (

    the dead body

    ) lámes gelícnes,
      Seel. 19.

  • Hé gestrínde sunu tó his gelícnesse and anlýcnysse

    genuit ad imaginem et similitudinem suam,

      Gen. 5, 3.

  • Tó Godes gelícnesse

    ad similitudinem Dei,

    1.

  • Tó gilícnesse Goddes

    ad imaginem Dei,

      Rtl. 109, 11.

  • Mid forewittigere gelícnysse

    presago (vituli) simulacro,

      An. Ox. 1969.

  • Wolcen on fýres gelícnysse,

      Chr. 979; P. 122, 25.

  • His eágan wendon on gelícnysse sweltendra manna, Hml. Th. i. 86, 25. ¶ of likeness in action, on (þǽre, þá) gelícnesse after the manner of, in like manner as :-- On gelícnesse

    ad instar,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 49.

  • Se wǽta cymþ tó þám tóþan on þáre gelícnesse þe hyt of húse dropað on stán,

      Lch. iii. 104, 10.

  • Ꝥ hí . . . yrre fram him ácyrde on þá gelícnesse Niniuítwarona (

    instar Nineuitarum

    ),
      Bd. 4, 25; Sch. 493, 4.

  • Wel ꝥ gedafenode ꝥ Drihten swá dyde on þá gelícnesse,

      Bl. H. 67, 12.

  • Efne þǽm gelícost swylce (on ðá gelícnesse swá, Bl. N.) ðá gesceafta him betweónan gefeohtan sceoldan, 221, 14. II a. form, shape, figure :-- Gelícnysse liniamento [this gloss seems to shew that in Wrt. Voc. ii. 79, 47-48, liniamento limgelecg, afflatus eácen vel gelícnes, gelícnes belongs to

    liniamento.

    The mistake is repeated in
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 6
    ], An. Ox. 2510: 8, 131.

  • Æteówed wæs in óðre gelícnisse (on óðrum híwe, W. S.)

    ostensus est in alia effigiae,

      Mk. R. L. 16, 12.
the representation of an object, an image, a copy
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  • Hwæs gelícnis his þæt

    cujus est imago haec?,

      Mt. R. L. 22, 20: Mk. L. R. 12, 16.

  • Gelícnes

    iconisma (regale compto stemmate depictum ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 45: 47, 14.

  • Æples gelícnes on þǽre ascan bið geméted,

      Ph. 230.

  • Ic hét wircan þǽr of ánes celfes gelícnysse,

      Ex. 32, 24.

  • Gelícnessa signa (cuncti velut aenea

    signa

    rigebant),
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 10.
an example, a parable
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  • Gelícnesse paradigmate (cf.

    paradigma

    bíspel, bysene,
      66, 3), Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 81.

  • In gelícnessum

    in parabulis,

      73, 25.
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v. an-gelícness, on-gelícness, un-gelícness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-lícnes.” 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/48659.

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