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Add: (i) to direct, order, give direction to a person (dat.)
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  • Wíse menn hit áfunden þurh þone hálgan wísdóm, swá heom God gedihte,

      Lch. iii. 154, 7.

  • Án scyp þe Godd sylf gedihte Nóe to wyrcaune, Wlfst. 10, 10. (l a) with acc. of direction,

    to give

    a direction :-- Hé gedihte þisne cwyde . . . 'Nimað þisne scyldigan . . . ' Þá tugon hí þone hálgan wer, swá hé him gediht hæfde,
      Hml. S. 14, 151-159.
to direct what is to be written or spoken,
dictate a letter, speech, & c.
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  • Seó ealde gesetnys ðe hé þurh Móysen gedihte,

      Hml. Th. ii. 56, 16.

  • Þæt gewrit áwrát Godes ængel, swá swá seó hálige þrynnys hit gedihte,

      Wlfst. 292, 21.

  • Ðá áwrát se earming mid his ágenre handa, swá swá se deófol him gedihte þone pistol,

      Hml. S. 3, 383.
to appoint, ordain
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  • Ymbreufæstena healde man rihte, swá swá Scs Gregorius Angelcynne hit gedihte,

      Wlfst. 272, 18 : Ll. Th. i. 320, 21.
  • Dǽdbóta sind gedihte on mislice wísan, ii. 282, 3.
to order, manage, rule
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  • Þæt heáfod gewissað þám óðrum limum, swá swí þæt mód gediht ðá geðóhtas. Hml. Th. i. 612,

      14. (43) of the divine ordering :-- God is swá mihtig, þæt hé ealle ðing gediht and gefadað bútan geswince, Hml. Th. i. 470, 24 : Hml. A. 24, 15: Lch. iii. 27814.
to compose a letter, verse, & c.
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  • Ǽrendgewrit þe on þyson and gíte wæs gediht,

      Hml. S. 23, 792.

  • Þás vers mid gyldenum stafum áwritene þus wǽron on his sprǽce gedihte, Angl. viii. 325, 48. (5 α)

    to draw up

    regulations, laws, & c. :-- Ðás týn beboda God sylf gedihte and áwrat,
      Wlfst. 66, 21.

  • Án þára gerǽdnessa þe Engla cyning gedihte mid his witena geþeahte,

      Ll. Th. i. 340, 4.
to construct, mate
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  • Se Fæder gedihte ealle gesceafta þurh his Wísdóm, and se Wísdóm is his Sunu,

      Hml. Th. ii. 206, 16.

  • God gesceóp man on ðám sixtan dæge, ðá ðá hé gesceafta gedihte,

      260, 22.
to perform, do
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  • Þá ealle þás ðinge þurh Godes fadunge þus wurdon gedihte,

      Hml. S. 23, 347.
to arrange
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  • God þás þingc swá gescifte, and mid his fadunge gedihte, ꝥ heora nán gefélan ne mihte,

      Hml. S. 23, 257.

  • Hú hé þurh gesihðe gedihte þá mynstertimbrunge

    de fabrica monasterii per visionem at eo disposita, Gl.

      D. 147, ii. Þæs mynstres getimbrunga gedíhtan. Hml. Th. ii. 172, ii. Hé
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  • Gedihtere endebyrdnesse sealmsangas

    disposito ordine psalmodie,

      R. Ben. I. 51, 4.

  • Síþbóc gedihte

    itinerarium digestum (decem voluminibus

    ], An. Ox. 2024.

  • Gedihte digesta (antiquarum arcam legum ab illo mirabiliter

    digesta),

    147 : 2175.
to deck, adorn
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  • Gediht vel gesiwad hrægel aucupicta vel

    frigia vestis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 18.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dihtan.” 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/47648.

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