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gearcian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to prepare, make ready
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  • Hé sceolde gearcian and dæftan his weig . . . Hé gearcað þone weig cumendum Gode,

      Hml. Th. i. 362, 7-11.

  • Ealle míne ðing ic gearcode (

    omnia parata

    ); cumað tó þám giftum,
      522, 8.

  • Gearcode hé his fare and tó Englelande cóm,

      Chr. 1091 ; P. 226, 28.

  • Hí gearcodon hí sylfe tó wíge,

      Hml. A. 104, 68, 75.

  • Gearciað þá þing þe eów gewunelice synd tó bebyrigunge,

      Hml. S. 3, 579.

  • Hé hét gearcian tó heora gyftum mænigfealde mǽrða,

      Hml. A. 95, 103.

  • Þysum is tó gearcigenne þá réþestan wíta,

      Hml. S. 24, 21.

  • Éce brynas gearcigendum

    eterna incendia preparanti, Angl. xi. 116, 18. I a. to dress food, skins, &c. :-- Ic bicge hýda and fell and gearkie (praeparo )

    hig mid cræfte,
      Coll. M. 27, 29.

  • Gearca ús gereord-unge,

      Hml. Th. i. 60, 18.

  • Bere is swíðe earfoðe tó gearcigenne,

      188, 4.
to present, furnish, supply
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  • Gearcaþ wæfersýne

    prestat spectaculum

    ,
      An. Ox. 1225.

  • Wala gearcode

    uibices exhibuit

    , 4488.

  • Wé ne gearcian nullatenus prebeamus, i.

    adhibeamus,

    749.

  • Þæt gé án clǽne mǽden gearcion Críste

    virginem castam exhibere Christo

    ,
      Hml. A. 30, 140.

  • Tó gearcygenne

    adhibenda

    ,
      Wülck. Gl. 251, 19.

  • Gearciende

    exibens

    ,
      An. Ox. 4638.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gearcian.” 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/47083.

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