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on-beódan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
on-beódan, p. -beád; pl. -budon; pp. -boden.
Wright's OE grammar
§654;
to bid, order
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  • Ðú onbude hǽlu

    qui mandas salutem,

      Ps. Surt. 43, 5: 118, 138.
  • Hé onbeád

    ipse mandavit,

      148, 5.
  • Ðá onbeád Basilla and cwæþ,

      Shrn. 86, 17.
  • Ðá onbeád heó him ðæt hé hire tó onsænde all ða gesiðwíf,

      87, 20.
  • Hé onbeád ðæt hé of Róme cóme,

      Bd. 1, 25; S. 486, 25.
to announce, tell, proclaim, send word
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  • Hé hit him hám bebeád (onbeád, MS. C.)

    he sent them home word of it,

      Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 168, 13.
  • Him Pilatus onbeád ymbe Cristes tácnunga

    Pilatus ad Tiberium repulit de Christi virtutibus,

      6, 2; Swt. 254, 23.
  • Word unreht onbudun (

    mandaverunt

    ) wið mé,
      Ps. Surt. 40, 9.
  • Eác beámas onbudon, hwá hý sceóp,

      Exon. Th. 72, 9.
  • Agustinus hét him onbeódan ðæt hér wǽre mycel riip,

      Bd. 1, 29; S. 498, 4.
Etymology
[Goth. ana-biudan: O. Sax. an-beodan: cf. O. H. Ger. in-piotan.]
Linked entries
v.  in-beódan.
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