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to find, get to know
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  • Wille wé be him áwrítan swá swá wé hine ágeáton

    we will write of him as we found him

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      Chr. 1086; P. 219, 19.
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  • Gif se abbod his geearnunga swá ágitt

    quem si talem esse perspexerit abba

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      R. Ben. 110, 3.

  • Swá raðe swá hé ágite ꝥ hit fremian mæge

    prout viderit expedire

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      120, 9.

  • Be hwylcum tácne man ágytan mihte hwænne his tócyme tówerd wurde,

      Wlfst. 88, 22.

  • Áfunden, ágyten

    expertus

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      An. Ox. 2538.

  • Gif ǽni man ágiten wurðe ꝥ ǽnige hǽðenscipe dreóge if any one be found to practise heathen rites, Ll. Th. ii. 296, 27. I a.

    to find out, get to know of

    :-- Gyf hé hwæt be óðrum gehýre oððe sylf ágyte,
      Ll. Th. ii. 316, 19.

  • Gyf wiccean innan þysan earde weorðan ágytene,

      Wlfst. 309, 23. v. on-gitan.
to get, take away
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  • Hié eágena gesihð ágéton (-gétton?) gára ordum,

      An. 32.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ar-gezan abolere, oblitterare.]
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v.  á-gytan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-gitan.” 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/38286.

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