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ge-bícnan, ge-bícnian.
Add: I. to make a significant gesture that gives or asks for information, to point to an object, inquire by signs
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  • Án lamb bícnode mid his swýðran fét, swilce hit þá wæterǽddran geswutelian wolde. Ðá undergeat Clemens þæs lambes gebícnunge and cwæð : 'Geopeniað þás eorðan on þyssere stówe þǽr ðǽr þæt lamb tó gebícnode, ' Hml. Th. i. 562, 12.

  • Gebécnade (-ede, R.) ðǽm Petrus

    innuit huic Petrus,

      Jn. L. 13, 24.

  • Gebécnadon fæder his huoelcne wælde geceiga hine

    innuebant patri ejus quem uellet uocari eum,

      Lk. 1, 62.

  • I a.

    to command by a nod, to command

    :-- Búton hé tó ǽlcum men mæge gebécnan ꝥ hé ierne on his willan,
      Bt. II, 1 ; F. 32, 20.
  • II. to point out by a sign.
to indicate an object by a gesture
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  • Judam hláfes mið rǽcing gebécnade

    Judam panis porrectione significat,

      Jn. p. 7, 3.
to point out by a written sign
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  • Gebécnas ł getácnas

    significans per minii distinctionem

      Mt. p. II, 14.
to mark, note by help of a sign
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  • Rímas ðá ǽr ðú gebécnades (signa*-*veras; cf.

    quos numeros adnotabis,

    6),
      Mt. p. 4, 7.
to shew figuratively, represent symbolically
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  • Hé sceal smeágan embe ꝥ ǽce líf . . . swíðor þonne embe þá eorðlican þing, swá swá his wæstm him gebícnað,

      Hml. S. 1. 61.

  • Ðegnum ongelíc wífes. . . inlǽdeð, ðá ilca from feder tó lufanne gebécnas

    (significans),

      Jn. p. 7, 16 : 3, 10: 8, 6.

  • Ðæt cýðde se wítga, ðá he ðæt openlíce sǽde, ðætte suá geweard, and ðæt gebiécnede, ðæt ðá giet diégle wæs,

      Past. 311, 5.

  • Nóe getácnode Críst, and þæt flód . . . gebícnode þæt wæter úres fulluhtes,

      Hml. Th. ii. 60, 4.

  • Ne fó wé nó on ðá bisna . . . for ðára leásena spella lufan, ac for ðǽm ðe wé wolden mid gebécnan þá sóðfæstnesse,

      Bt. 35, 6; S. 101,12.

  • Mid þám þe hé cwæþ: 'Uton wircean,' ys seó Ðrinnys gebícnod,

      Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 3, 15.
Etymology
[O. Sax. gi-bóknian : O. H. Ger. ge-bouhnen figurare.']
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-bícnan.” 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/47240.

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