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gesithcund

gesithcund adjective: having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.

Adjective

gesithcund (not comparable)

  1. Having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
    • The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press
    • The same class which, regarded from the point of view of the wergeld, possessed completeness of kindred and the twelve-hynde oath, when looked at from another point of view was gesithcund, i.e. more or less directly in the service of the King and belonging to the official and landed class.1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law

Origin of gesithcund

Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþcund.

Questions about gesithcund

What does gesithcund mean?
Gesithcund means having the rank of a gesith (member of the king's retinue) in medieval England; well-born.
What part of speech is gesithcund?
Gesithcund is an adjective.

Words near gesithcund in the dictionary

  1. Geshurite
  2. Geshurites
  3. gesicle
  4. gesicles
  5. gesith
  6. gesithcund
  7. gesithcundman
  8. gesithcundmen
  9. gesithman
  10. gesithmen
  11. gesiths

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