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  • 1 STÉTT

    * * *
    (pl. -ir), f.
    2) stepping-stones (þeir fœrðu stéttir þær í ána, er aldri hefir ór rekit síðan);
    3) degree, rank (hverrar stéttar ertu?);
    4) order, condition;
    * * *
    f. [no doubt akin to A. S. stibtan = to found; Germ. stiften; formed like réttr, léttr (q. v.); stétt therefore prop. means a foundation]:—a pavement; en er hann kom fram í stéttirnar, Sturl. ii. 107; kirkju-stétt, iii. 200, 221: in Icel. the raised pavement running along the front of houses is called stétt, bæjar-stétt.
    2. stepping-stones; þeir færðu stéttir þær í ána, er aldri hefir ór rekit síðan, Grett. 113 A.
    3. the foot-piece or base of a vessel; fjórði kaleikr er undan er stéttin, Vm. 29.
    II. [influenced by, if not derived from, the Lat. status]:—degree, rank; hverrar stéttar ertú, Fms. iii. 182; makligan þeirrar stéttar, Mar.; til allra klerkligra stétta, H. E. i. 475; margar stéttir, Stj. 299: very freq. in mod. usage, andleg stétt = the clergy; veraldleg stétt = the laity: old writers freq. use it in masc. when in this sense ( stéttr), hann tekr aptr allan fyrra stétt, Th. 5; resignera ábóta-stéttinn, Ann. 1393, Bs. ii. passim.
    COMPDS: stéttarker, stéttarlauss.

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  • 2 önd-verðr

    and önd-urðr, adj. standing face to face; öndurðr horfir þú við í dag—Öndurðir skulu ernir klóask (a saying), Ó. H. 183 (and the verse of Sighvat).
    2. fronting, in front of; í öndurða fylking, the front of the rank, Ó. H. 217; (öndverðr, Fms. v. 13, 79, l. c.); í öndurðri fylkingu, Mork. 208; í öndverðu höfði, Pr. 430; frá öndverðu til ofanverðs, from top to bottom, Hom. 118; ofanvert heldr enn öndvert þat merki, Rb. 102; öndurt fylki, Vellekla; Öndurt nes (mod. Öndurðar-nes), a local name, Landn. 87, 315; hann bjó á Öndurðri-Eyri (also a local name), 92, Eb. 8 new Ed.
    II. of time, in the earlier, former part of a period, opp. to ofanverðr; öndurt sumar, Sighvat; óttu alla ok öndurðan dag, Am. 50; öndverðar nætr ok ofanverðar, Bs. i. 431; öndvert ár, the spring-time, Fms. ix. (in a verse); öndverðan vetr, i. 21, Eb. 21 new Ed., Eg. 188; var kyrt öndvert þingit, Ld. 290, Nj. 63; goðar allir skolu koma til þings öndverðs, Grág. i. 100, 130; öndverðrar Kristni, in the early Christian age, Stj.; í öndorðri Kristni, Hom. 137; öndverða öld, öndurða æfi sína, Ver. 25; af öndverðu, from the outset, K. Á. 104: sagði frá öndverðu ok til ofanverðs, from beginning to end, Hom.; fyrir öndverðu, at the outset, Grág. i. 80, 323, 394, Finnb. 342.

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