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on-bídan

  • verb [ strong ]
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on-bídan, p. -bád; pl. -bidon; pp. -biden.
to abide, wait, remain
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  • Onbád óþ ðæt ǽfen cwom,

      Beo. Th. 4594; B. 2302.
  • Hé onbád ðæt feówertig wintra hweðer hié gecyrran woldan

    he waited the forty years to see whether they would change,

      Blickl. Homl. 79, 4.
  • Onbíd her seofon and twentig nihta,

      231, 5: 237, 33.
  • Hér sceolon hí onbídan, Soul Kmbl. 121; Seel. 61.
to wait for, expect, with gen.
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  • Ic uncres gedáles onbád,

      75; Seel. 37.
  • Ic ðín onbád,

      Ps. Th. 118, 116.
  • Gif wífes wer sig on hæftnýde gelǽded, onbýde (

    expectet

    ) heo his .vi. winter,
      L. Ecg. C. 26; Th. ii. 152, 4.
  • Wé sculon óðres onbídan,

      Lk. Skt. 7, 20.
  • Willaþ gé mín onbídan? Blickl. Homl. 233,

      30, 27.
to wait on, attend upon
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  • Onbídendum

    prestulanti,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 58.
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