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ge-þicgan

  • verb [ strong ]
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ge-þicgan, -þicgean; p. -þah
To take, accept, receive; sumere, accipere
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  • Waldon ða swángeréfan ða læswe forður gedrífan and ðone wudu geþicgan ðonne hit aldgeryhto wéron

    the swainreeves wanted to push the pasturage and take the wood further than the old rights extended,

      Th. Ch. 70, 22.

  • And hiera se æþeling gehwelcum feoh and feorh gebeád and hiera nǽnig hit geþicgean nolde

    the atheling offered every one of them money and life and none of them would accept it,

      Chr. 755; Erl. 50, 6.

  • Hit on mete oððe on drince to geþicganne

    to take it [poison] in meat or drink,

      Ors. 3, 6; Bos. 58, 16.

  • He ðæt ful geþeah æt Wealþeón

    he took the cup from Waltheow,

      Beo. Th. 1261; B. 628: 1241; B. 618: Cd. 42; Th. 54, 30; Gen. 885.

  • Ðǽr ic beág geþah

    there I received a bracelet,

      Exon. 85 b; Th. 322, 19; Víd. 65: 84 b; Th. 318, 24; Víd. 3.

  • Londryht geþah

    he received the land-right,

    100 b;
      Th. 379, 29; Deór. 40: Cd. 161; Th. 200, 10; Exod. 354.

  • Boitius se hæle hátte se ðone hlísan geþah

    Boethius the man was named who got that fame,

      Bt. Met. Fox 1, 106; Met. 1, 53.

  • Geþǽgon medoful manig

    they took many a mead-cup,

      Beo. Th. 2033; B. 1014.
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v.  þicgan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þicgan.” 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/16466.

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