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Wright's OE grammar
§12; §434; §438; §553; §574;
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suitable, fitting, seemly
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  • Hé má lufedon dióra drohtað, swá hit gedéfe ne wæs,

    • Met. 26, 92.

  • Tó forðspównesse gedéfore heánesse

    ad profectum debiti culminis,

    • Bd. 2, 4;
    • Sch. 127, 5.

  • Gedéfum gafule

    debita pensione,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 22.

  • Gedéfum

    debitis, congruis,

    • 139, 72.
of persons.
righteous, good
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  • Æðele láreów, árfæst and gedéfe,

    • Hml. Th. i. 596, 32.

  • Manige hálge and gedéfe wítgan wǽran ǽr Sancte Ióhanne,

    • Bl. H. 161, 12.

  • Hié bútú wǽron swíþe gedéfe beforan Gode

    erant justi ambo ante Deum

    • (Lk. i. 6). 30.

  • Wuna mid ús, þæt þú ús gedéfra[n] gedó, for þon þe wé níwe syndon tó þissum geleáfan gedón,

    • 247, 34.
staid, sober
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  • Sé wæs wintrum geong and on his þeáwum eald and gedéfe

    aetate juuenis, sed moribus grandaeuus,

    • Gr. D. 219, 3.

  • Of gesægne swíðe gedéfra and getreówra háda

    personarum grauium atque fidelium relatione,

    • 278, 23.
quiet, meek, gentle
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  • On gedéfre heortan

    corde quieto,

    • Wülck. Gl. 252, 29.

  • Behealde ic tó þám eádmódan and tó þám gedéfan

    (quietum),

    • Scint. 18, 8.

  • His gást wunað ofer ðone eádmódan and ofer þone gedéfan,

    • Hml. A. 40, 394.

  • Gedéfe mód

    tranquillam mentem,

    • Wülck. 01. 252, 20.

  • Þá gedéfan

    quietos,

    • Hy. S. 3, 23.
of things.
quiet
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  • On tídum gedéfum

    horis quietis,

    • Hy. S. 4, 30.
In the metrical Psalms it is used as a favourable epithet of indefinite meaning
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  • Ealle þe . . . his gedéfne weg lustum gangað

    omnes . . . qui ambulant in viis ejus,

    • Ps. Th. 127, 1.

  • Dyde gedéfe mægen Dryhtnes swýðre

    dextera Domini fecit virtutem,

    • 117, 36.

  • Míne gedéfe word

    verba mea,

    • 140, 8 : 145, 6.
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v. lǽr-gedéfe (?), un-gedéfe.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-défe.” 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/47622.

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