endebyrdnes

• endebrednes — Anglian

Equivalent to either endebyrd (“an arrangement, order”) +‎ -nes (adjective suffix), or to endebyrdan (“to set in order, adjust”) +‎ -nes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.de.byrd.nes/, [ˈen.de.byrˠd.nes]

endebyrdnes f

1. a row, series, rank, grade, or degree of things, based on shared traits, level, or status
2. an order or class (of objects, beings, people, etc.)
3. a rank or order within a department
4. a succession in place or time
5. the order or condition in which a thing functions properly
6. the order or method by which a goal is reached
7. a mode, procedure, rite, or practice
8. the order of nature
9. the action of putting something in, or maintaining, order
10. an injunction or ordinance

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: endeburdnesse, endbirnesse

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ENDE-BYRDNES”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.