Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

ge-ascian

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ge-ascian, l. ge-áscian,
Wright's OE grammar
§651;
and add:
to ask
a question of a person
Show examples

  • Hé geáscade

    (sciscitabatur)

    from him huér Críst ácenned wére,
      Mt. L. 2, 4.
a person a question
Show examples
  • Hé geáscode hiá, 'Huu feolo láfo habbað gié?, ' Mk. L. 8, 5 : 14, 60: 15, 2.

  • Geáscadon interrogabant, 13, 3. (2 a) about a matter, inquire into :-- Geáscende (gasta[^e]nde, MS. ) and smeáagende (quarerens) mislicu þing, Solil. H. 3, 1. (2 b) a person about a matter :-- For hwon wiþsæcst þú þæs þe þú eart geácsod

    quare negas quod inquireris?,

      Gr. D. 190, 12.
to ask for, try to find by inquiry, inquire for a person
Show examples

  • Se cásere hét geáxian ofer eall sumne æltǽwne drý,

      Hml. S. 14, 49.

  • Wæs Apollonius gesóht and geácsod, ac hé wæs náhwár fundon,

      Ap. Th. 6, 8.
to find out by asking, seek out, discover,
a material object
Show examples

  • Se cásere áxode hine embe his wíf and his suna, hú hé hí geáxode,

      Hml. S. 30, 398.

  • Ǽlcne þára þe hió geácsian myhte . . . hió tó hyre gespón,

      Ors. 1, 2; S. 30, 30.

  • Hæbbe ic nú forbærned þá ealdan gewritu þe ic geáhsian mihte,

      Cht. Th. 490, 33.

  • Ealle his sceattas þe hí mihton geáxian,

      Chr. 1064 ; P. 190, 18.

  • Hí sóna ealle wǽron geácsode

    (requisiti),

    and wǽron gelǽtene,
      Gr. D. 182, 8.
a non-material object
Show examples

  • Sume synna se man wandaþ ꝥ hé hí ásecgge, búton se mæssepreóst hié æt him geácsige,

      Bl. H. 43, 18.
to get to know a fact, circumstance, &c. ,
to learn, hear
Show examples

  • Mid þý þe (tyþe, MS. ) geáscode

    cum re[s]cisset,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 72.

  • Nówiht gedégled ꝥ ne sé geáscad

    nihil occultum quod non scietur,

      Mt. L. JO, 26.
the object a pronoun representing a circumstance given
in a preceding clause
Show examples

  • Cóm se b . . . , and þá þe Willelm ꝥ geáxode,

      Chr. 1071; P. 208, 3: Hml. S. 14, 50.

  • Healde se landhláford ꝥ orf . . . oþ þæt se ágenfrígea ꝥ geácsige,

      Ll. Th. i. 276, 15.
in a following clause
Show examples

  • Gif he ꝥ geácsað, ꝥ hit sóð is,

      Ll. Th. i. 276, 8.

  • Þá geáscade se cyng þæt, þæt hié út on hergað fóron,

      Chr.911; P. 96, 10.

  • Ðá ꝥ se hláford geáhsode, ꝥ ꝥ hrýþer swá férde,

      Bl. H. 199, 9.
the object a clause
Show examples

  • Man geáxað þe hé fúl bið,

      Ll. Th. i. 238, 30.

  • Ic hæbbe geáhsod (-ácsod,

    v. l.

    ) ꝥ úre frið is wyrse gehealden,
      220, I : 240, 26.
with acc. and infin.
Show examples

  • Manig yfel wé geáxiað wæstmian,

      Bl. H. 109, i.

  • Wé geácsodon his geceasterwaran beón Godes englas, and wé geácsodon þǽra engla geféran beón þá gástas sóðfæstra manna

      , Wlfst. 2, 1 — 4.
with acc. and complementary
adjective
Show examples

  • Be þisum þeofum þe man on hrædinge fúle geáxian ne mæg

    of these thieves who cannot at once be shewn on examination to be guilty,

      Ll. Th. i. 238, 30.
adverb
Show examples

  • Se ealdorman hine ðǽr geáxode (cf.

    pervenit ad aures principis confessorem Christi penes Albanum latere,

      Bd. l, 7), Hml. S. 19, 32.

  • Hi eódon þǽr hí geáxodon Ulfcytel mid his fyrde,

      Chr. 1010; P. 140, 7.
clause
Show examples

  • Þone þe wé geáxian, ꝥ fúl sý,

      Ll. Th. i. 228, 13.
to get information about a person or thing,
hear of.
with acc.
- —
Show examples

  • Wé fram dæge tó óþrum geáxiað ungecynelice deáþas . . . and wé gehýrað oft secggan worldrícra manna deáþ . . . swá wé eác geáxiað mislice ádla,

      Bl. H. 107, 25-31.

  • Hét se cásere georne smeágan hwǽr man ǽfre þá hálgan geáxian mihte . . . Man áxode on porte . . . man scrútnode on ǽlcere stówe þær man hí ǽfre geáxian cúðe ; ne mihte hí nán man náhwer findan,

      Hml. S. 23, 264-269.

  • Ne mehte mon búton feáwa ofslagenra geáhsian,

      Ors. 2, 8; S. 94, 12.
with be
Show examples

  • Wé geácsodon be þám heofonlican éðle,

      Wlfst. 2, Hé
    hæfde geáxod be ðæs Hǽlendes wundrum (cf. Ic hæbbe gehýred be ðé, hú ðú hǽlst ðá untruman, 90), Hml. S. 24, 86.
to find out (the character or
designs of) a person
Show examples

  • Geácsoden

    ut caperent

    (v. Ut caperent eum in sermone,
      Mt. 22, 15), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 14.
to get to know (
the nature of) a thing
Show examples

  • Hwi gé nellon, siþþan gé hiora þeáwas geácsod habben, him onhyrian. Bt. 40,

      4; F. 240, 3.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-eiscðn rogare, audire, discere, cognoscere, scire.]
Similar entries
v. un-geáxod.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ascian.” 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/47134.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ge-ascian, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.