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  • Baedde

    exactum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 108, 9.

  • Bǽdde,

      30, 16.
to urge, press, compel, impel
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  • Bǽdt

    inpulerit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 28.

  • Beadætþ (= bǽdeþ)

    angarizaverit (= angariaverit,

      Mt. 5, 41
    ),

      72, 17.

  • Ðonne ðá sácerdas tó weorðunga úres Álié-sendes ne bǽdað (exigunt) ðá ðe him underðiédde bióð mid hira lífes geearnungum,

      Past. 135, 10.

  • Mǽru cwén bǽdde byre geonge (cf. v. 1182),

      B. 2018.

  • Hió unc bǽddan tó gemangum

    they urged us to marry,

      Shrn. 40, 29.

  • Stinge finger on múð, bǽde tó spíwanne (cf. néde hine tó spíwanne),

      l. 17
    ,

      Lch. ii. 286, 20.

  • Baeden(d)re, baedendræ, bédændræ

    inpulsore,

      Txts. 71, 1100.

  • Bǽdendre,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 79.

  • Com hé tó mé bǽdendre (caritate exigente), uncre lufan

      Gr. D. 248, 16.

  • Bǽdendum þám nýde þæs ylcan hungres

    exigente ejusdem famis necessitate,

      251, 17.

  • Wǽron wit bǽdde ꝥ wit sceoldon hig wurþian,

      Shrn. 38, 21.
to require, exact (with gen.)
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  • Þæs his lufu bǽdeð

    love for him requires that,

      Gn. Ex. 100.

  • Þá gebróðra woldon þæs húses wáh hwéne hérran getimbrian, forþon þæs swá sum neódþearflicu wíse bǽdde (quia res ita exigebat),

      Gr. D. 124, 23.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bǽdan.” 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/39408.

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