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Add: To bind one thing to another, tie up; alligare.
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  • Þá folan hý gesǽlað (getígað. v. l.) ǽr hý ofer þá eá faran

    foetus trans flumen alligatos relinquunt,

      Nar. 35, 11.

  • Hé getígde his hors ðǽr binnon,

      Hml. Th. ii. 136, 15.
  • Hé getígde ǽnne ormǽtne ryððan innan ðám geate, i. 372, 33.
  • Getígað ǽnne ancran tó his swuran, i. 564, 7.

  • Ðæt esulcweorn tó ðǽm suíran wǽre getíged (-tigged,

    v. l., suspendatur ),

      Past. 31, 18.

  • Gé gemétað getígedne (

    alligatum

    ) assan,
      Hml. Th. i. 206, 10.

  • Getígede (-tiggede,

    v. l.

    ) assene,
      Mt. 21, 2.
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  • Wite hé þæt hé mid þæs regoles bendum is getíged

    sciens se sub lege regale constitutum,

      R. Ben. 99, 12.

  • Hé bið getiéged (-tíged) tó óðrum monnum mid onlícre gecynde

    aequa ceteris naturae conditione constringitur,

      Past. 111, 19.

  • Ðá hádas dǽre hálgan endebyrdnesse beóð getígede (-tígde, v. l.) tó eorðlicum tielengum

    personae sacrorum ordinum terrenis negotiis inhaerent,

      135, 15.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-tígan.” 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/50219.

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