midgetellan

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Old English

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Etymology

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mid- +‎ ġetellan

Verb

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midġetellan

  1. to count among, include
    • 11th c., MS Arundel 155, Eadui Basan (scribe), Christ Church, Canterbury, folio 181; transcribed in 1941, Holthausen, Ferdinand, "Altenglische Interlinearversionen Lateinscher Gebete und Beichten", in Anglia, vol. 65, p. 251.
      [] nā forseoh ðū [mē] unwyrðne ðēow þīnne
      [] Ne despicas me indignum famulum tuum
      drihten god ac on ġetæle hālġena þīnra þā
      ilł, domine deus, sed in numero sanctorum tuorum, qui
      fram frymðe þē ġelīcudon mē mid-ġetellan ġemēdema ⁊
      ab initio tibi placuerunt, me computare dignare &
      nā forlǣt mē drihten on eallum dagum līfes mīnes
      non derelinquas me, domine, omnibus diebus vite mie.
      Do not despise me, thy unworthy servant, O Lord God, but deign to count me among the number of your saints who have pleased you from the beginning, and do not forsake me, Lord, through all the days of my life.

Conjugation

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