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to bring to or from a place.
where the object is animate
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  • Gif mon cierliscne mon on hengenne álecgge (gebringe,

    v. l.

    ),
      Ll. Th. i. 84, 4.

  • Gif mon þeóf on carcerne gebringe . . . forgyldan hý hine oþþe hine eft þǽrinne gebringan,

      198, 21-26.

  • Þæt man crístene men on hǽðendóme (

    in heathen lands)

    ne gebringe,
      378, 1.

  • Cuce orf hé on gemǽnre lǽse gebringe,

      274, 26.

  • Hé hine sceal æt stæðe underfón, and eft þǽr gebringan,

      354, 25.

  • Hét hé hine gebringan on carcerne and þǽrinne belúcan,

      Bt. 1; F. 2, 25.

  • Hét Eádréd cyning gebringan Wulstán arcebiscop in Iudanbyrig on þǽm fæstenne,

      Chr. 952; P. 112, 35.

  • Nimon Sigeferðes láfe and gebringon binnan Mealdelmes byrig,

      1015; P. 146, 3.
  • (I a) figurative as regards the place

    Ðá unðriéstan on ðǽm wege gebringan gódra weorca,

      Past. 211, 15.

  • Godes þæt hálige folc on rihtne weg gebringan,

      Hml. S. 23, 363.
where the object is inanimate
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  • Hé his sylfes þǽr bán gebringeð,

      Ph. 283: 271.
  • I a. where the point reached is given by an abstract noun :-- Hú hé ꝥ

  • Hú hí mihton hine tó deáþe gebringan,

      Hml. Th. i. 214, 32.
to bring to or from a state, condition, action, &c.,
cause to be in such and such a state, &c.
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  • Sió hrædwilnes ðæt mod gebrin[g]ð on ðǽm weorce ðe hine ǽr nán willa tó ne spón,

      Past. 215, 9.

  • Seó haigung deófla on fleáme gebringed,

      Ll. Th. i. 360, 32.

  • Míne sáwle gé on betran gebringað,

      Gú. 349.

  • Ðætte hine sió gewilnung of his módes fæsðrǽdnesse ne gebrienge,

      Past. 317, 7.

  • Mínes múðes mémódes willa on heáhsǽlum gebringe

    voluntaria oris mei beneplacita fac, Ps. Th.

      118, 108.

  • Hé wæs þencende hú hé his bróðor on þǽm onwalde gebringan mehte. Ors. 6,

      36; S. 292, 24.

  • Se cyng sume hét on hæftneðe gebringan,

      Chr. 1095 ; P. 231, 34.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-bringan.” 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/47339.

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