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with a material object.
to lay, place
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  • Gyf þysse wyrte sǽd man ofer þá scorpiones gelegð,

      Lch. i. 248, 23.

  • Noldon hí þæt feoh gelecgan on heora fǽtelsum,

      Hml. Th. ii. 250, 17.
  • Hé wæs on ðissere beðunge geléd, i. 86, 24.

  • On scríne geléd

    in sarcofago delatum,

      An. Ox. 2905.

  • Gelegdum

    jactatis,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 44.
to settle the regulations concerning an object,
determine by law the character of
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  • Se wudu is gemǽne swá hé on ældum tímum gelægd wæs

    sylva, sicut antiquis temporibus lege cautum erat, est communis,

      C. D. iv. 202, 13.
with a non-material object,
to lay a command, task, &c., upon a person
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  • 'Ábeódað míne ǽrende tó ðám gemóte . . . and cýðað hwǽm ic mínes landes geunnen hæbbe' . . . Heó ridon tó ðám gemóte and cýðdon . . . hwæt heó on heom geléd hæfde,

      C. D. iv. 55, 9.
Etymology
[Goth. ga-lagjan to lay, lay up: O. H. Ger. ge-leggen ponere, mittere, dis-, re-ponere.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-lecgan.” 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/48606.

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