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eádgian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Substitute: eádgian, eádigian, eádigan; p. ode.
to make happy
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  • Hand unhál wíf seó þe ná eádigað wer hyre

    manus debilis mulier quae nan beatificat uirum suum,

      Scint. 224, 4.
to bless, enrich with something (gen. )
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  • Sé þe eádgað ús siges, óðrum forwyrneð wlitigan wilsíðes,

      Cri. 20.
to call blessed
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  • Hí (

    the Virgin Mary

    ) englas eádigað and ealle þeóda,
      Hml. A. 136, 690.
  • Heó is ús tó herianne and tó eádgienne, for þon þe heó engla þreátas eádige bodedon,

      Bl. H. 11, 11.
Etymology
[Goth. audagjan to call blessed: O. H. Ger. gi-ótagón ditare: Icel. auðga to make happy; to enrich.]
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v. ge-eádgian.
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