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ge-ǽþan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to make oath concerning, confirm by oath
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  • Hé hit mid áðsware geǽðde and geswór, þus cweðende: ' Ic . . . geǽðe and swerige þurh þone lifigendan Godes sunu . . . ꝥ þás word . . . nǽron of nánes mannes handa gehíwode, '

    • Nap. 27.

  • Wé lǽrað ꝥ preóst bísæce ordél ǽfre ne geǽðe (in cases where the validity of the ordeal was disputed a priest was not to swear to the validity? The previous canon enjoins that ' ǽnig preóst ne stande on leásre gewitnesse '; in the present one the ' bísæce ordél' may be ordeals which, it was contended, had been conducted improperly (cf. Gif preóst ordál misfadige, gebéte ꝥ,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 296, 9
    ), and to the validity of which he was not to swear (falsely)),

    • Ll. Th. ii. 258, 4.
to administer an oath to, swear a person,
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. ge-eiden adjurare; ge-eidemo conjurato.
]
Similar entries
v. ge-ǽðed in Dict.
Linked entries
v.  ǽþan áþ-swaru.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ǽþan.” 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/47000.

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