Geasa
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Geasa is a noun meaning plural of geis.
Meaning
plural of geis.
More Meanings
- plural of geas
- (nonstandard) Synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
Example Sentences
The gallant lad did that, too, and triumphed, but, as the Black Goat was passing out, he put upon the boy a geasa to tie up the Jester of the Prince of Darkness. That also the youth did, only to have another geasa put upon him.
[Y]ears ago I placed a geasa on a baby girl. It was that if she ever saw a three-legged fox, she should follow it. Last year she saw a fox that had three legs, and she followed her geasa. She found a young man sitting by a stream.
Their physical yearning for each other was nearly as great as their union of poetry, but it was inhibited by a geasa, or taboo, that had been inflicted on Curither by an elderly aesodan, his poetic mentor during the long years of .
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include geis, gease, geas, gause, geer, gee-gees.
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