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ge-dafenian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-dafenian, -dafnian, -dæfnia; p. ode; pp. od
Wright's OE grammar
§536;
To be becoming or fit, to behove; decere, convĕnīre : chiefly used impersonally, it behoves, it is becoming or fit, ought; dĕcet, oportet
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  • Ic axige hwæðer hit mihte gedafnian Abrahame

    I will ask whether it was becoming to Abraham,

    • Boutr. Scrd. 21, 47
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  • Láreówum gedafenaþ ðæt hí mid wísdómes sealte geleáffulra manna mód sylton

    it befits teachers that they salt the minds of believing men with the salt of wisdom,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 536, 16
    • :
    • L. E. I. 24; Th. ii. 420, 32
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  • Me gedæfnaþ

    me oportet,

    • Jn. Skt. Lind. 9, 4
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  • Ðé gedæfneþ

    te oportet,

    • 3, 7
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  • Ðé gedafenaþ

    te dĕcet,

    • Ps. Th. 64, 1 : 92, 7
    • :
    • Ælfc. Gr. 33; Som. 37, 20
    • :
    • Andr. Kmbl. 633
    • ;
    • An. 317
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  • Me gedafenaþ óðrum ceastrum Godes ríce bodian

    aliis civitātĭbus oportet me evangelizāre regnum Dei,

    • Lk. Bos. 4, 43
    • :
    • Ælfc. Gr. 33; Som. 37, 21
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  • Gedafenode

    dĕcuit,

      33; Som. 37, 21 :
    • Bd. 4, 11; S. 579. 11
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  • Hit gedafnode ðæt se Ælmihtiga ǽrest ðæt hwílendlíce leóht geworhte

    it was becoming that the Almighty first created the temporary light,

    • Boutr. Scrd. 19, 4 : 21, 39
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  • Gedæfnad is ús

    decet nos,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 3, 15
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