Meanings
- nonstandardSynonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
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.
2019, Brendan Wolfe, Wolfe's History: A Family Story, →ISBN, page 3882 more examples
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 ...
1994, Desmond MacNamara, The Book of Intrusions, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 45[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.
2011, David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm, Del Rey, →ISBNSynonyms: geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
Origin
- Irishgeasa
- Englishgeasa
Irish geasa, the plural of both geis and geas.
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geasa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geasa
“geasa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geasa. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “geasa,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geasa.
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