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lǽr-gedéfe

  • verb [ uncertain ]
  • adjective
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  • Leorna láre lǽr gedéfe wene ðec in wísdóm.

    • Exon. 806
    • ;
    • Th. 303, 31
    • ;
    • Fä. 61
    • .
    In this passage Ettmüller and Grein take lǽrgedéfe as an adj. but lǽr may well be, as Thorpe takes it, the imperat. of lǽran, which verb naturally accompanies leornian.
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v.  ge-défe.
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  • lǽr-gedéfe, v.; adj.