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ge-teórian

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-teórian, l. ge-teórian,
and add:
of persons,
to be exhausted, be fatigued.
of bodily weariness
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  • Gif mon fram longum wege geteórod sié,

      Lch. ii. 150, 19.

  • Mé genihtsumiað þás tintrega, for þon ic eom geteórod . . . þú wást þá menniscan týddernysse,

      Bl. H. 243, 27.
of mental weariness
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  • Nis hit nán wundor ðeáh þú getiórie (-týrige, v. l.) verendum est, ne deviis fatigatus . . . , Bt. 40, 5; F. 240, 23. (2 a) to grow weary of doing,

    cease from weariness

    to do :-- Ic þ é bidde ꝥ þú ne geteórige for mé gebiddan,
      Hml. S. 23 b, 320.
of things,
to be used up, come to an end, fail.
material
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  • þá hyra feoh geteórode

    cum defecisset emptoribus pretium.

      Gen. 47, 15.

  • Þá ꝥ win geteórode

    defciente uino,

      Jn. 2, 3.
non-material
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  • Him nǽfre seó langung ne geteórode,

      Bl. H. 113, 14.

  • Án weorc hé hsæfde . . . nǽfre geteórod

    one work he had that never failed,

      Hml. S. . . 23 b, 35.
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v. ungeteórod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-teórian.” 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/50037.

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