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Add: keeping due measure.
moderate in expendi-ure, not extravagant, frugal. Cf. ge-metgung; I a
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  • Gemetfæst

    frugi, pareus uti,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 32.
not yielding to anger or
impatience, meek, gentle
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  • In geþylde mægene gemetfæst

    patientiae uirtute modestus,

      Bd. 4, 28 ; Sch. 525, 14.
  • Hé wæs líðe and gemetfæst on his worde, and hé wæs geþyldig and eádmód

    erat colloquio blandus, temperantia modestus,

      Guth. Gr. in, 82.
  • Hé wæs swiðe geþyldig and eáðmód and gemetfæst on eallum his lífe. Bl. H. 213,

      8. (2 a) as an epithet of a quality :--
    Embe his efencempan hé haefde micele lufe and gemetfæst geðyld and sóðe eédmódnysse. Hml. S. 31, 45.
not over-bearing, kind
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  • Hé wæs árfæst and gemetfæst and mildheort on his dǽdum,

      Bl. H. 217, 8.
  • Wer milde and gemetfæst,

      Gú. 1080.
  • Hé hæfð sundorgecynd milde gemetfæst. Hé is monþwǽre, nele láðes wiht ǽngum geæfnan,

      Pa. 31.
sober, discreet, honest, orderly, v. ge-metfæstnys,
, ge-metlǽcan
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  • Ǽfestes lífes and gemetfæstes abbod religiosae ac modestae uitae abbas, Bd. 5, 12;

    Sch.

      631, 23.
  • Fela sceal tó holdan hámes geréfan and tó gemetfæstán manna hyrde, Angl. ix. 265, ll. Þám ungestæþþegan þú miht secgan ꝥ hé biþ unstillum fugelum gelícra ðonne gemetfestum monnum

    inconstans studia permutat ? nihil ab avibus differt,

      Bt. 37, 4; F. 192, 24.
  • Se wísdóm gedéþ his lufiendas wíse and wære and gemetfæste,

      27, 2; F. 98, l.
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v. un-gemetfæst.
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v.  ge-metfæstlíce.
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