Geis

//ɡɛʃ// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of geas (“a mystical injunction: a prohibition, or obligation/compulsion”).

    "[In] 36a we read that there was (19) a geis upon ships to leave the 'port' of Athens till someone had defeated Atalanta in a running race. The nature and function of the geis that lay upon objects appears to better advantage, however, in one of the stories about Ailill Dock-Ear."

  2. 2
    plural of gei form-of, plural

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geas

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"[In] 36a we read that there was (19) a geis upon ships to leave the 'port' of Athens till someone had defeated Atalanta in a running race. The nature and function of the geis that lay upon objects appears to better advantage, however, in one of the stories about Ailill Dock-Ear."

Etymology

From Irish geis.

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