† gyesiten.
Obsolete. rare.
One who commits the sin of Gehazi (2 Kings v), i.e. who asks or accepts money in return for spiritual things.
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1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 18024 The byggyng is called symony..They that it sell for gret or lyt Bene y-called Gyesite.
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n.1426- ological
- ologies
- ologist
- ologistic
- ologists
- ology
- of the number
- of the number of
- of the old rock
- of the old school
- of the order of
- of the own
- of the part of
- of the period
- of the same
- of the same diet
- of the same flight
- of the same leaven
- of the same meal
- of the same order
- of the same venter
- of the same, that, every, etc feather
- of the season
- of the second etc magnitude
- of the second magnitude