Gesithman
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A gesith.
"If any one received into his family a ceorl who fled from justice, he was obliged to pay his own were, but if he refused he was compellable to pay his own were, and then his gesithman was bound to pay his were also. Here the stranger, by being admitted into the family of another, became the gesithman of his host."
Example
More examples"If any one received into his family a ceorl who fled from justice, he was obliged to pay his own were, but if he refused he was compellable to pay his own were, and then his gesithman was bound to pay his were also. Here the stranger, by being admitted into the family of another, became the gesithman of his host."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English ġesīþman, equivalent to gesith + -man.
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