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ge-ǽþan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to make oath concerning, confirm by oath
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  • Hé hit mid áðsware geǽðde and geswór, þus cweðende: ' Ic . . . geǽðe and swerige þurh þone lifigendan Godes sunu . . . ꝥ þás word . . . nǽron of nánes mannes handa gehíwode, ' Nap. 27.
  • Wé lǽrað ꝥ preóst bísæce ordél ǽfre ne geǽðe (

    in cases where the validity of the ordeal was disputed a priest was not to swear to the validity ?

    The previous canon enjoins that ' ǽnig preóst ne stande on leásre gewitnesse '; in the present one the ' bísæce ordél' may be ordeals which, it was contended, had been conducted improperly (cf. Gif preóst ordál misfadige, gebéte ꝥ,
      Ll. Th. ii. 296, 9),
    and to the validity of which he was not to swear (falsely)), Ll. Th. ii. 258, 4.
to administer an oath to, swear a person, v. ge-ǽðed in Dict. [O. H. Ger. ge-eiden adjurare; ge-eidemo conjurato.]
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v.  ǽþan áþ-swaru.
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