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ge-ágnian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to have as one's own, possess, occupy
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  • Þín sǽd geágnað (þín ofspring sceal ágan,

    • Gen. 22, 17
    ) his feónda gatu

    possidebit semen luum portas inimicorum

    ,
    • Hml. Th. ii. 62, 10.

  • On eówerum geðylde gé geáhniað eów (possidebitis,

    • Lk. 21, 19
    ) eówere sáwla,

    • 544, 4.

  • Eádige beóð þá líþan, for ðan þe hí þæt land geágniað (possidebunit ,

    • Mt. 5, 4
    ),

    • i. 550, 19.

  • Bréðer þe Godes ege his sáule geáhnige

    cujus animam timor Dei possidet

    ,
    • R. Ben. 85, 22.

  • Swá swá náht hæbbende and ealle ðing geágnigende (possidentes,

    • 2 Cor. 6, 10
    ),

    • Hml. Th. i. 550, 7.

  • Geágnode,

    • Ælfc. Gr. Z. 15, 6.
to get or secure possession of, acquire for a person (dat.)
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  • Se arcebiscop geáhnode (acquisivit aeternam hereditatem) Gode and S Andrea þá land,

    • Cht. Th. 273, 23.

  • Hé lét þá Godas þeówas þǽra áre brúcan þe him geáhnod wæs,

    • Hml. S. 3, 354.
reflexive
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  • Cnut geáhnode (-ágenede, v. l.) him þet land,

    ¨
    • Chr. 1028
      • ;
    • P. 157, 21.

  • Uton faran and geáhnian ús þæt land, for þan þe wé magon mid mihte hit bigitan,

    • Num. 13, 31.

  • Him ealle þás cynerícu on his ǽnes ǽht geágnian,

    • Bl. H. 105, 12.

  • On þám setle þe hé him sylfum geágnod hæfde,

    • Nic. 16, 14.
to adopt a child
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  • Tó ðǽm ðæt gé Gode geágenudu (-ágnudu, v. l.) bearn (adoptionis filii) beón scielen,

    • Past. 263, 22.
to prove one's title to property, secure by shewing title
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  • Sé þe yrfe him geágnian wille . . . sylle þone ád ꝥ hit on his ǽhte geboren wǽre,

    • Ll. Th. i. 204, 12.

  • Þæt Helmstán móste gán forð mid ðon bócon and geágnigean him ðæt lond,

    • Cht. Th. 170, 18.

  • Þá getǽhte man Wynflǽde ꝥ hió móste hit hyre geáhnian,

    • 288, 36.
in a bad sense, to usurp
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  • Geáhnian

    usurpace

    ,
    • An. Ox. 5, 15.

  • Geáhnode

    usurpatę

    ,
    • 5307.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ágnian.” 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/47016.

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