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to buy goods
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  • Sé þe hine gebohtte qui eum emerat, Bd. 4, 22; Sch. 460, 12. 1 a. to buy as a trader :-- Wilt þú syllan þingc þíne hér, ealswá þú hí gebohtest þǽr? Ic nelle, ac ic wylle heora cýpan hér luflicor þonne ic gebicge (emi) þǽr, Coll. M. 27, 15-19. ꝥte hiá gebohte

    ut negotiarentur,

      Lk. p. 10, 1.
of payment by the husband before marriage
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  • Gif mon wíf gebycgge, and sió gyft forð ne cume,

      Ll. Th. i. 122, 5.
to obtain by payment a benefit, an advantage, office, &c.
where the payment is material
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  • Lundene waru griðede wið þone here and heom frið gebohtan. Chr. 1016; P. 153, 9.

  • Eádsige arcb ... bletsode Síward tó biscope ... se arcbiscop wénde ꝥ hit sum óðer mann ábiddan wolde oððe gebicgean,

      1043; P. 164, 5.

  • Hú woldest þú gebycgan, þá þú gesǽlgost wǽre ... mid hú micelan feó woldest þú þá habban geboht ꝥ þú swutole mihtest tócnáwan þíne frínd and þine fýnd? Ic wát ꝥ þú hit woldest habban mid miclan feó geboht ꝥ þú hí cúþest wel tóscádan,

      Bt. 20; F. 72, 17-22: 34, 9; F. 146, 12.

  • Gebohtre scíre wítnung

    ambitus judicium,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 12.
where the payment is non-material
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  • Sume gebycgaþ weorþlicne hlísan ðisses andweardan lífes mid heora ágnum deáþe,

      Bt. 39 11; F. 228, 27.

  • Mé þincð ꝥ hit hæbbe geboht sume swíþe leáslice mǽrþe,

      24, 3; F. 82, 25.
to pay for work done
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  • Þone fultum and þæt weorc Agustus gebohte mid fela M talentana

    Augustus ad reparationem magnam vim pecuniae largitus est,

      Ors. 6, 1; S. 252, 28.
to secure the services of a person
by payment, to hire
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  • Nǽnig úsic mid leáne gebohte

    nemo nos conduxit,

      Mt. R. 20, 7.
to buy those in slavery,
to redeem
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  • Godwíg hæfð geboht Leófgife and hyre ofspring mid healfon punde æt Ælsige tó écean freóte, C.D. iv. 271, 16. ¶ gebycgan út

    to buy out, redeem

    :-- Ægelsige hæfð geboht Wilsige his sunu út at Ælfsige abbod and æt eallon híréde tó écean freóte,
      C.D. iv. 271, 4, 10: 270, 17.
to rescue from punishment by payment.
secular
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  • Sé þe fals wyrce þolige þǽra handa þe hé ꝥ fals mid worhte, and hé hí mid nánum þingum ne gebicge, ne mid golde, ne mid seolfre,

      Ll. Th. i. 380, 18.
spiritual
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  • Þá sáwla þe Críst mid his ágenum lífe gebohte,

      Ll. Th. i. 304, 17, 22.
to pay the penalty for. Cf. á-bycgan
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  • ꝥ hit manige yfele men mid heora feóre gebohtan,

      Bl. H. 45, 23.

  • Ǽlc þǽra manna þe yt oððe drincð on untíman ... wite hé ꝥ his sáwl sceal sárlíce hit gebicgan (-bycgean,

    v.l.

    ),
      Hml. S. 12, 77.

  • Hé hét ꝥ hí áwendon his geþanc fram Críste, and cwæð ꝥ hí sceoldon sylfe hit gebicgan, gif hí ne bígdon his mód,

      35, 55.
to sell [= be-bycgan]
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  • Ðeáh hwá bebyccge (gebicge,

    v.l.

    ) his dohtor on þeówenne,
      Ll. Th. i. 46, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-bycgan.” 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/47377.

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