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ge-andettan

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to confess, acknowledge wrong-doing, weakness, &c.
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  • Geondeton (confitentes) synna hiora,

    • Mt. L. 3, 6.

  • Geandet swá hwætt swá þú þáron wite,

    • Ll. Lbmn. 414, 34.
as an ecclesiastical term
to confess to a priest
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  • Þæt hié heora synna cunnon onrihtlíce geandettan,

    • Bl. H. 43, 16.

  • Hit geandettan and bétan,

    • Wlfst. 34, 17.

  • Búton hit ǽr geandet and gebét wǽre,

    • 25, 15.
reflex.
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  • Þǽm mannum þe heora synna and unrihtes geswícaþ, and hié (or hié may refer to synna) Gode and heora scriftum geandettiaþ,

    • Bl. H. 193, 23.
to admit for oneself in assertion, concede, allow
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  • Ðe ilca geondete lomb niomende synno middangeardes

    ipsum fatetur agnum tollentem peccata mundi

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    • Jn. p. 3, 6.

  • Geondate (giondetted. R.)

    confessus est

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    • Jn. L. l, 20.

  • ꝥ ðá ídlo hiá . . . geondetad sint

    ut inutiles se . . . fateantur

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    • Lk. p. 9, 7.
to confess, declare one's belief that
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  • Gif hwelc hine giondette (geondetate, L.) Críst

    si quis eum confiteretur Christum

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    • Jn. R. 9, 22.

  • Sé ðe ðe ilca Godes suna bið geondetað

    qui eum Deifilium confitetur

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    • Jn. p. 3, 10.
to confess a person or thing, acknowledge as having a certain character, declare one's faith in
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  • Mannes geþanc þé geandet,

    • R. Ben. 24, 17.

  • Sé ðe geondetas meh before monnum.

    • Mt. L. 10, 32.

  • Sel folcum crístinum ðá ðe giondetað (quae profitentur) tó ongeattanne,

    • Rtl. 15, 15.
to make acknowledgement of a benefit to a person, give thanks or praise
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  • Ðió giondetade (geonditteð, L.) Drihtne

    haec confitebatur Domino

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    • Lk. R. 2, 38.

  • On niht árísan and Drihtne geandettan,

    • R. Ben. 40, 14.
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v. un-geandett.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-andettan.” 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/47042.

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