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ge-dafenian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§536;
Add: — Gedafnaþ conuenit,
    Wülck. Gl. 252, 15.
the subject a noun,
with dat. or uncertain
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  • Rehtwíse gedeofenað efenherenis rectis decet conlaudatio, Ps. Srt. 32, l. Ðé gedeafenað ymen,

      64, 2. . . . Húse ðínum gedeafineað (decent) ðá hálgan, 92, 5 Gedafenie[n
    ]dre beclýsinge

    competenti clausula,

      An. Ox. 5356.
with infin. or clause
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  • Swylces módes wer má gedafonade (-dafen-, v. l. beón tó bysceope gehálgad (ꝥ hé wǽre tó bisceope gehálgod, v. l.) þonne hé cyning wǽre

    a man of such a disposition was more suited to be consecrated a bishop than to be a king ;

    talis anirni uirum episcopum magis quam regem ordinari deceret,
      Bd. 4, ii ; Sch. 404, 2.
the subject a pronoun,
with an infin.
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  • Hú hit gedafenige on his gesihðe beón

    qualiter oporteat in conspectu ejus esse,

      R. Ben. l. 52, 17.
with a clause in apposition
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  • Wel ꝥ gedafenaþ ꝥ hé tó eorþan ástige,

      Bl. H. 13, 19: Cri. 551.

  • Wel ꝥ gedafenode ꝥ Dryhten swá dyde,

      Bl. H. 67, 12: 77, 12.
without a subject,
alone
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  • Godes laga bealdan swá swá his háde gedafenað,

      Ll. Th. i. 346, 24.

  • Dó hire swá dohtrum gedafenað

    faciet illi juxta morem filiorum,

      Ll. Lbmn. 30, 6 note,
with a clause
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  • Mé gedafenaþ þæt ic nú tódæg þé gecyrre,

      Hml. Th. i. 580, 33 : Bl. H. 227, 13 : 55, 4: 149, 11.

  • Ús gedafanað ꝥ . . . ,

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 362, 15.
with infin.
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  • Þá án þá þe tó ǽfæstnesse belumpon, and his þá ǽfestan tungan gedafenode (-deofanade, v.l.) singan

    ea tantummodo, quae ad religionem pertinent, religiosam ejus linguam decebant,

      Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 482, 9.
with gerundial infin.
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  • Swá ǽnigan crístenan mæn ne gedafenað tó dónne, Ll. Th. i. 316, II. Hú monnum gedafonode (-dafen-,

    v. l.

    ) on hiera beddum tó dónne,
      Past. 99, 20.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dafenian.” 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/47605.

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