gesithcundman

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old English gesiþcund man / mon.

Noun

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gesithcundman (plural gesithcundmen)

  1. A gesith.
    • 1830, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 149:
      The gesiths, gesithmen, or gesithcundmen, were the military companions or followers of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs and Kings.
    • 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press:
      The penalty of the adultery of the gesithcundman goes to his lord, ‘according to ancient usage.’
    • 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law:
      Now, if we might regard the gesithcundman as one of a class to whom ten hides or twenty hides had been allotted by King Ine on a system providing in this practical way inter alia for the night’s entertainments, it would be natural that the food rent of the unit of ten hides should be fixed.