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ge-búgan

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to bow, bend the body
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  • Hé hine on cirican gebidde, and tó Godes weófedan gebúge,

      Ll. Th. i. 334, 30.

  • Se wyrm gebeáh tósomne. ... Gewát gebogen scríðan,

      B. 2569.

  • Ábogenre ł ge[bogenre]

    curva,

      Hpt. Gl. 436, 62.
to bend one's steps, turn, go.
of persons
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  • Gé þearfum forwyrndon þæt hí under eówrum þæce mósten in gebúgan,

      Cri. 1505.
of things
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  • Þý lǽs se áttres ord in gebúge under bánlocan,

      Cri. 768. (2 a) of withdrawal, retirement, voluntary or enforced :-- Hé gebeáh binnan twám geárum tó þám ylcan mynstre and munuc wearð. Hml. S. 21, 88. ꝥ

  • Gehádod man ... borh finde, oþþe on carcerne gebúge,

      168, 8.
of adhesion, submission, &c., by a follower, vassal, tenant, worshipper, &c.
to a person or institution
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  • Ic wille beón N. hold and getríwe ... and eall ꝥ lǽste ꝥ uncer formǽl wæs, þá ic tó him gebeáh and his willan geceás,

      Ll. Th. i. 178, 9.

  • Hé gebéh ... mid lande intó Sce Augustine, and ǽlce geáre gyld ... .i. pund tó geswutelunga ... and æfter his dæge gange þæt land intó Sce Augustine,

      C.D. ii. 300, 6.

  • Mid þǽm monnum þe him tó gebugon,

      Chr. 901; P. 92, 7. ꝥ ðú
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  • Behát Gode ꝥ ðú tó him gebúge, gif hé þé nú gehelpð, 353: Ll. Th. i. 424,

      4. ꝥ

  • Mid þám flotan þe him tó gebogen wæs,

      Chr. 904; P. 93, 24.
to a belief, practice, condition, &c.
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  • Mynstermunuc gǽð of his mǽglage þonne hé gebýhð tó regollage,

      Ll. Th. i. 346, 3.

  • Ǽlces hádes men gebúgan tó þám rihte þe him tó gebyrige,

      304, 24; 348, 29: 378, 12.

  • Fela manna nolde to godcundre bóte gebúgan,

      166, 16.
  • Gif preóst tó rihte gebúgan nelle, ac ongeán biscopes gerǽdnesse wiðerige, ii. 296, 17.
  • Ǽr hé hæbbe tó ǽlcum rihte gebogen, i. 250, 1.

  • Þǽm. gebogenan mǽdene

    to the converted maiden,

      Hml. S. 2, 88.

  • Seó cwén and Decius dohtor to Crístes geleáfan and tó ðám hálwendum fulluhte gebogene wǽron,

      Hml. Th. i. 434, 25.
of abandonment, defection
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  • Ðá Wylisce men syððon hí fram þám cynge gebugon, heom manege ealdras of heom sylfan gecuron. Chr. 1097; P. 233, 20.
  • Maníg fram þám eorle gebogen wæs, 1091 ; P. 226, 9.
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To submit to.
    Cf. I. 2, 3
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  • Gebúge hé hengenne and þǽr gebíde,

      Ll. Th. i. 396, 27.

  • Man nolde godcunde bóte gebúgan,

      166, 18.

  • Ǽr þám þe hé hæbbe godcunde bóte gebogene,

      312, 3.
Etymology
[Goth, ga-biugan to bend: O.H. Ger. ge-biugan curvare.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-búgan.” 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/47370.

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