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ge-emnettan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-emnettan, -emnittan, -emnyttan; p. te; pp. ed
To make even or level, compare; æquāre, exæquāre
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  • Deáþ geemnet ða rícan and ða heánan

    death levels the rich and the poor,

    • Bt. 19; Fox 68, 34
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  • Gif we úre unþeáwas geemnettaþ be his hǽsum

    if we level our vices by his commands,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 316, 1
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  • Heó hí sylfe to hwelpum geemnette

    she compared herself to the whelps,

    • 114, 10
    • .
  • Geemnittan

    exæquāre,

    • Scint. 9
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  • Ðæt heó ðone dæg and ða niht geemnytte

    that it might make even the day and the night,

    • Bd. de nat. rerum
    • ;
    • Lchdm. iii. 238, 24
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  • Geemnettan

    quadrare, congruere,

    • Hpt. Gl. 506
    • .
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v.  ge-ymnyttan ge-efnettan.
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