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to order a person (dat.) to do something
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  • Héht hire þá áras gebeódan Constantínus, þæt hió cirican . . . getim*-*brede,

      El. 1007.

  • Gif him þæt fæsten swá geboden nǽre,

      Wlfst. 181, 13.
to order to come, summon
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  • Ic gefrægn folctogan fyrd gebeódan,

      Gen. 1961.
to proclaim, announce
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  • Suá hwér geboden bið godspell ðis ubicumque praedicatum fuerit evangelium istud, Mk. L. R. 14, 9. III a. to proclaim as an edict or ordinance :-- Gebeád hé sínum leódum, þæt sé wǽre his aldre scyldig þe þæs onsóce,

    Ðan.

      449.
    þænne bises geboden weorðe, Men. 32.

  • III b.

    to give official notice of: — Hié hine his mǽgum gebeóden (gebodien, v. l. ),

      Ll. Th. i. 64, 19.

  • Hit beó seofon nihtum geboden ǽr gemót sý

    notice of a meeting must be given seven days before it. is to be held,

      208, 27.
to offer,
to offer for acceptance,
of material objects
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  • Hé Willferð bæd þæt hé him þæs síðfates látteów wǽre, and him micel feoh wið þám gebeád

    (promissa non parua pecuniarum donatione),

      Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 372, 13.

  • Him Hygd gebeád hord and ríce,

      B. 2369.

  • Hé him ǽt gebeád,

      Ph. 401.

  • Ne sceal him mon ánne mete gebeódan, ac missenlice,

      Lch. ii. 240, 15.
of non-material objects,
to offer a condition, homage, respect, &c.
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  • Wurþmynt gebeódan,

      Hml. S. ii. 8.

  • Úrum Hǽlende hyldo gebeódan,

      Ps. Th. 94, 1.

  • Gebodenes sinscipes,

      An. Ox. 3910.

  • Gebodene

    oblatam,

    3595.
to give into the power of, commit
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  • Gif hé self his wǽpno his gefán út rǽcan wille. . . hié hine his mágum gebeóden (or under III ?, the Lat. version has offeratur,

    but

    gebodien is in one
      MS. ), Li. Th. i. 64, 19.

  • Geboden tó bǽle,

      Dan. 414.
to offer to do, do to a person
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  • Rihtlaga is þæt man óðran gebeóde, þæt hé wylle, þæt man him gebeóde,

      Wlfst. 274, 12.
    . nánum ne gebeóde þæt, þæt hé nelle þæt man him gebeóde, Hml. Th. i. 260, 30-32.

  • Hwí wolde gé mé þásþing gebeódan (cf. for hwon wolde gé wiþ mé þús dón

    quare in mefacere ista voluistis ?

      Gr. D. 105, 19), ii. 158, 25.
to offer, present, cause to be subject to what is unpleasant
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  • For þǽm lytlan ege þe him mon gebeád,

      Ors. 3, 1 ; S. 94, 27.

  • Ic him Geáta sceal eafoð and ellen gebeódan,

      B. 603.
  • þé gúðgewinn geboden wyrðed,
      An. 219.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-beódan.” 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/47205.

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