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gidding

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Dele first and last passages, take here gedding in Dict., and add:
of metrical composition
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  • Béda þises hálgan líf ǽgðer ge æfter ánfealdre gereccednysse ge æfter leóðlicere gyddunge áwrát

    Bede wrote St. Cuthbert's life both in prose and in verse

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      Hml. Th. ii. 134, l.
of formal or serious speech.
a dark saying, riddle, an enigma
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  • Geddunga

    enigmata

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      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 54.
of figurative speech,
a similitude, parable
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  • Gicwæð hé ðás geddunga, onlícnesse ł bisene

    dicebat hanc similitudinem

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      Lk. R. 13, 6.
  • Geddunge

    parabolam

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      15, 3: 19, Geddong, Lk. p. 10, 7.
  • Getdung,

      7, 3.
  • (Parabola is often glossedby geddung in the Lindisfarne and Rushworth versions of St. Luke's Gospel.)
of prophetic or divine speech
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  • Drihten, . . . giðæht ðín ald geddung sóð sié

    Domine, . . . consilium tuum antiquum verum fiat

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      Rtl. I. 9.
  • Gyddunge gerýna (

    futura propheticae) diuinationis oracula

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      An. Ox. 2534: 2, 97.
  • Ðurh Crístes ðrowunge wurdon ðǽra wítgena gyddunga gefyllede,

      Hml. Th. ii. 372, 13.
  • Gehýrað wítedóm, Ióbes gieddinga,

      Ph. 549.
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v. leóþ-gidding.
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