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ge-eácnian

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to make greater, add to, increase, augment
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  • Hé his synna geeácnað,

      Hml. S. 16, 292.

  • Wé geeácniað heora werod,

      Hml. Th. i. 214, 23.
  • Hí mid ðám geeácniað yfelnysse him sylfum. Hml. S. 13, 298.

  • Ic heóld þínes fæder gestreón, and furðor hí geeácnode,

      9, 43.

  • Hé ðæs dæges leóht geeácnode mid ðám scínendum tunglum,

      Hex. 6, 31.

  • Ic wylle míne bernu geeácnian (

    horrea mea majora faciam,

      Lk. 12, 18), Wlfst. 286, 19.

  • Hí ne sceolon heora bodunge álecgan, ac swíðor geeácnian,

      Hml. Th. ii. 232, 15: Chr. 1067; P. 201, 28: Geieácnian, Cht. Th. 125, 18.

  • Wé sceolan geeácnian ús þá écean spéda,

      Hml. S. 12, 269.

  • Geeácnude weldǽda

    macta merita,

      An. Ox. 3542.
to add
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  • Þá sóna geeácnode (geécte,

    v.l.

    ) hé þǽr tó 'þínes múðes,'
      Gr. D. 139, 8.

  • Þ hé geeácnige áne elne tó hys anlícnesse

    adicere ad staturam suam cubitum unum,

      Mt. 6, 27.

  • Ealle þás þing eów beóð þǽr tó geeácnode

    haec omnia adicientur vobis,

    33.
to become or
to make pregnant
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  • Þonne hraþe geeácnað heó,

      Lch. i. 346, 7.

  • Wíf tó geeácnigenne

    to make a woman pregnant,

    4.

  • Ǽr ðon þe beó geeácnad wǽre

    before she conceived,

      Shrn. 47, 29.

  • Eua cende hire bearn on sáre, for þon þe heó on synnum geeácnod wæs . . . Maria fǽmne cende, for ðon heó wæs fǽmne geeácnod,

      Bl. H. 3, 13-17, 18, 22.

  • Heó geeácnod wæs of þǽm Hálgan Gáste,

      11, 14.

  • Þæt wíf mid bearne geeácnod wæs,

      Guth. 8, 12.
to conceive a child
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  • Geeácnaþ

    concipit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 22.

  • An mǽden sceal geeácnian

    (concipiet)

    and ácennan sunu,
      Hml. Th. ii. 14, 2.

  • Geécnande

    concipiens,

      Lk. L. l, 31.

  • Geécnad wére

    conciperetur,

      2, 21.

  • Sé þe wæs geeácnod of þám Hálgan Gáste

    qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto,

      Ps. L. fol. 199, 5.

  • Þonne him sió sóðfæsðnes on geeácnod bið, ǽr ðǽm ðe hit fullboren sié,

      Past. 367, 17.

  • Hwæðer hé wite þe nyte, hwænne hé geeácnod (-éc-,

    v.l.

    ) wǽre,
      Gr. D. 262, 19.

  • On synne hé bið geeácnod,

      Bl. H. 59, 34.

  • Geeácnud

    (regenerantis gratiae vulva] conceptus.

      An. Ox. 3134.
to bring forth
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  • Ic wæs geeácnad

    ego parturiebar,

      Kent. Gl. 267.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-eácnian.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/47772.

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