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to put.
lit. to place in or on a material object, give position or direction to
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  • Hé þone hláf tóbræc on twá, and hine gedyde on his twá sléfan,

    • Bl. H. 181, 16.

  • God feorh in gedyde,

    • Gen. 184.

  • Heó hyre bán on níwe þrúh ásette and on cyricean gedyde (

    ossa eius in locello nouo posita in ecclesiam transferri),

    • Bd. 4, 19 ;
    • Sch. 445, 4.

  • Hí his líc gedydon on þrúh,

    • Bl. H. 191, 33.

  • Hié ciricean árǽrdon . . . and þǽr gedydon twá weófedu in,

    • 205, 15.

  • Gedó forð beácen þín,

    • El. 784.

  • Hé mec þǽr oninnan . . . gedón wolde,

    • B. 2090.

  • Reádes goldes swá micel ðǽr is tó gedón(g),

    • C. D. vi. 132, 22.
Grammar
ge-dón, =á-dón (. ?)
to put away, remove :--
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  • Gedóð (cf. ádóþ,

    • Ps. Rdr. 23, 7, 9
    ) eówre geátu

    tollite portas vestras,

    • Ps. Th. 23, 9.
    In
    • v. 7
    tollite is translated by un-déd.
fig.
to put from (fram), put out of one's power
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  • Ðá mé fram fleám gedydan

    periit fuga a me,

    • Ps. Th. 141, 5.
to put or bring into a position or relation
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  • Sóna þaes folces þone mǽstan dǽl hé ðǽm cyninge on onwald gedyde

    exercitum statim Cyro tradit,

    • Ors. :, 12;
    • S. 52, 28.

  • Þe lǽs man eft twǽme ꝥ man ǽr tósomne gedydon

    (joined in matrimony),

    • Ll. Th. i. 256, 11.

  • Philippus hæfde ealle Crécas on his geweald gedón,

    • Ors. 3, 7;
    • S. 118, 27.
to bring a person to or out of a condition
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  • Hé hié tó eáþmódre hérsum-nesse gedyde,

    • Chr. 828;
    • P. 62, 4.

  • Hí Læcedemonie mǽst ealle áwéstan, and tó þon gedydon ꝥ hí hí selfe léton for heáne

    Sparlani ultima propemodum desperatione tabuerunt,

    • Ors. 3, l ;
    • S. 98, 22,

  • Drihten mæg úre fýnd gedón tó náhte

    Deus ad nihilum deducet tribulantes nos,

    • Ps. Th. 59, ii.
    Tó hwon sceolde þeós smyrenes beón tó lore gedón ?,
    • Bl. H. 69, 7.

  • Tó náuhte gedóne,

    • Bt. 37, 3;
    • F. 190, 19.

  • Uncúð bið þé tó hwan þé þín Drihten gedón wille,

    • Dóm. L. 32, 60: Seef. 43.

  • Hé hæfð gedón út his twégen sunu

    he has redeemed his two sons from slavery,

    • C.D. vi. 209, 23.

  • tó deáþe gedón

    to put to death

    :-- His slagan þe hine tó deáðe gedydon.

    • Hml. Th. i. 300, 14.

  • Hú hí mihton hine tó deáðe gedón,

    • 26, 22.
to put a thing to a use :--
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  • To hwan hió þá næglas séiost gedón meahte,

    • El. 1159.
to apply money, expend
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  • Gif wé þá dagas fulfremedlíce for Gode lifgeaþ, þonne hæbbe wé úre daga þone teóþan dǽl for Gode gedón . . . Nú is þearf ꝥ wé þone teóþan dǽl for Gode gedón,

    • Bl. H. 35, 24-28.
to impart to a person.
to bestow, confer a material object
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  • Him Rómáne gedydan ǽnne gyld-enan scield

    cui a senatu clypeus aureus decretus est,

    • Ors. 6, 25 ;
    • S. 276, 14.
to cause by one's action a person (dat.) to have a faculty
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  • Sé gedyde dumbum men sprǽce,

    • Shrn. 82, 34.

  • Sé gedyde blindum men gesihðe,

    • 85, 24.
to bring some affecting quality or condition to a person,
the object a noun (pronoun), to do a person good, harm, c.
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  • Þ þú sý gemyndig hwæt mín fæder þá gedyde,

    • Bl. H. 151, 24.

  • Ðá ilcan þe ðé gedydon þás guornunga,

    • Bt. 7, 2 ;
    • F. 18, 10.

  • Máran hearm and yfel þonne hí ǽfre wéndon ꝥ heom ǽnig burhwaru gedón sceolde,

    • Chr. 994;
    • P. 129, 3.

  • Mé láíes wiht gedón,

    • Gú. 285.

  • Ðæs ðe ðín niéhsta ðé wiðerweardes gedón hæbbe,

    • Past. 349, II.

  • Fremena þára þe ic þé gedón hæbbe

    • , Gen. 2820.

  • Ǽlc þǽra þinga þe him gedón oððe gecweíen wǽre,

    • Chr. 1014;
    • P. 145, 8.
the object a clause
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  • Wénst þú mæge seó wyrd þé geðón þæt þá þing ðíne ágene sién . . . .

    • Bt. 14, i;
    • F. 40, 31.

  • Nán mon ne mæg þám móde gedón ꝥ hit ne sié ꝥ hit biþ,

    • 16, 2 ;
    • F. 52, 17.
to show mercy, do honour, justice, c. :--
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  • Hé him deádum lytle mildheortnesse gedyde,

    • Ors. 3, 9 ;
    • S. 128, 15.

  • God gedyde his miltsunge on Rómánum,

    • 6, 38;
    • S. 296, 28.

  • Se man þám óðrum riht gedó.

    • Ll. Th. i. 30, 20.

  • Heora nǽnig him tó cerran nolde, ne him nǽnig[r]e áre gedón,

    • Bl. H. 213, 35.
to do (with object denoting action).
the object a noun (pronoun)
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  • Huæt gódes ic gedóo

    quid boni faciam ?,

    • Mt. L. 19, 16.

  • Gif hwá hwæt ungewealdes gedéð,

    • Ll. Th. i. 412, 15 : 16.

  • Drihten onféhþ lustfullíce eallum ðǽm gódum þe ǽnig man gedéþ his þǽm niéhstan,

    • Bl. H. 37, 25.

  • Hé eall gedéð, swá his willa byð,

    • Ps. Th. 113, ll.

  • Eall þæt wé tó góde gedóó . . . eall þæt wé tó yfele gedóð and gefremmað

    • , Wlfst. 233, 7-9.

  • Ðæt hé tó góde gedyde (anteacta bona), hé forliésð, . . . ðæt hé tó yfle gedyde, hé gebétt,

    • Past. 35, 8: Chr. 81;
    • P. 8, 8.

  • Þá hond þe hé hit mid gedyde,

    • Ll. Th. i. 66, 4.

  • Þára árfæstra dǽda þe hé gedyde,

    • Bl. H. 213, 27: Hml. S. 27, 134.

  • Hé gedyde sweotol tácn (docuit) . . . mid þǽm þe hé hét crístenra monna éhtan,

    • Ors. 6, 22 ;
    • S. 274, 3.

  • Þ ðú gedó hér swilc tácn . . . ꝥ ðis wæter ðisne man ne onfó,

    • Ll. Lbmn. 415, 29.

  • Gif hit þeów man gedó,

    • Ll. Th. i. 172, 7.

  • Þ hé ǽnig þára góda forylde þe hé þonne þý dæge gedón mihte,

    • Bl. H. 213, 24.

  • Gif hié þis gedón magan,

    • 183, 6 : An. 342.

  • Þæt wæs gedón.

    • Wlfst. 210, 5.

  • Mæhto ðá ðe ðerh honda hs biðon gedóen

    (efficiuntur).

    • Mk. L. R. 6, 2.
the object a clause, to achieve, bring to pass that :--
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  • Þú nǽfre gedést þæt þú mec ácyrre from Crístes lofe.

    • Jul. 138.

  • Drihten gedéð þæt hé firenfulra geþancas tóweorpeð,

    • Ps. Th. 128, 3 : 129, 3.

  • Se yfla willa gedéð þæt hé gedrǽfð . . . (cf. se yfela willa gedréfð . . . ,

    • Bt. 31, 2 ;
    • F. 112, 24),
    • Met. 18, i.
    .

  • Drihten wyle gedón þæt hé áhweorfe hasftnéd,

    • Ps. Th. 125, i.
to do good, evil, right, wrong, act rightly, c.
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  • Þonne hié láð gedóð.

    • Gen. 624.

  • Mycel yfel beforan þé ic gedyde,

    • Bl. H. 87, 30.

  • Næfð hé riht gedón,

    • Gen. 360.
to commit sin, crime, c.
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  • Gif fríman edorbrecðe gedéð,

    • Ll. Th. i. 8, 15.

  • Dǽdbóte dón þæs mycclan yfeles and mánes þe hié wið heora Drihten gedydon,

    • Bl. H. 79, 6.

  • Ðá gedónan synna,

    • Past. 257, 21.

  • Ǽr gedénra,

    • Cri. 1266.
Grammar
ge-dón, gedón
finished, completed, brought to a conclusion,
of action :--
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  • Hit wæs elles feáwum mannum cúð ǽr hit gedón wæs,

    • Chr. 1043;
    • P. 164, 3.

  • Ðissum þus gedóne,

    • 1086;
    • P. 218, 35 : 222, 13 : 1090;
    • P. 225, 15.
of time
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  • Þám gedónum qua peracta (intercapedine)

    ,
    • An. Ox. 3402.
with noun of action as object, to make attack, move, excuse, c. :--
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  • Eolxsecg wundað beorna gehwylcne þe him ǽnigne onfeng gedéð,

    • Run. 15.

  • Gif ic on helle gedó hwyrft ǽnigne

    si descendero in infernum,

    • Ps. Th. 138, 6.

  • Hí nǽnige láde gedón ne magon,

    • Bl. H. 57, 20.
to make, bring about a state, condition, cause to be as the result of action.
with noun object
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  • Heó (

    the Nile)

    gedéð mid þǽm flóde swíþe þicce eorþwæstmas,
    • Ors. l, I;
    • S. 12,36.

  • Hé gedyde fela martyra

    plurimos ad coronam martyris sublimavit,

    • 6, 33;
    • S. 288, 19.
with clause
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  • Ic gedó ꝥ eówru wíf beóð wydewan,

    • Ll. Th. i. 52, 19.

  • Ic gedóm ꝥ git beóþan monna fisceres

    faciam vos fieri piscatores hominum,

    • Mt. R. 4, 19.

  • Gedyde ic þæt þú hæfdest mǽgwlite mé gelícne,

    • Cri. 1383.

  • Gedóþ ꝥ eów sý mete gearo,

    • Bl. H. 39, 28.

  • Gedón ðætte hiera Drihten lícige ðǽm folce

    to bring it about that their Lord may be pleasing to the people,

    • Past. 147, 7.

  • Ic wille gedón þ ǽlc man sý folcrihtes wyrðe

    I will have it that every man be entitled to folkright,

    • Ll. Th. i. 164, 20.

  • Hé gedyde þæt Antonius his freónd wearð,

    • Ors. 5, 13 ;
    • S. 244, 28 : 6, 18;
    • S. 272, I.
with noun (pronoun), and complementary
adjective
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  • Ðá tunglu þú gedést þé gehýrsume,

    • Bt. 4;
    • F. 6, 32.

  • Hé hine fracodne gedéð,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 320, 22: Hml. S. 23 b, 390.

  • Þá smalan wyrmas þone man deádne gedóð,

    • Bt. 16, 2;
    • F. 52, 12.

  • Hé hié gedyde liþran,

    • Ors. 5, 12;
    • S. 244, 15.

  • Ðý lǽs sió ánfealdnes hine tó ungeornfulne gedoo (-dó,

    v.l.

    ),
    • Past. 239, 2.

  • Gedó,

    • 453, 23 : Ll. Th. i. 48, 25 : 108, 2 : 136, 7.

  • Hine móton his mǽgas unscyldigne gedón (unsyngian,

    v. l. ),
    • 116, 8.

  • Hé bæd þæt hé wǽre Crísten gedón,

    • Chr. 107 ;
    • P. 8, 19.
participle
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  • Hé ús gedyde dǽlnimende þæs heofonlican ríces,

    • Bl. H. ii. l.

  • Hý gedydon ðæt cild sprecende

    • , Shrn. 142, 22.
phrase
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  • Erre móde git mé gedydon

    ye made me of angry heart,

    • Bl. H. 189, 25.
with complementary adjective and clause
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  • Hié cúð gedydon þæt hié him þæt gold tó gode noldon,

    • Dan. 196.
to endow with qualities or properties
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  • Gif hwá gewilnigeð tó gewitane hú gedón mann hé wæs

    if any one wants to know what sort of man he was,

    • Chr. 1086;
    • P. 219, 16.
to make, produce, do one thing from another :--
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  • Gedón ductum

    (Ambrosius . . . nomen Ambrosiae de nectare ductum

    • Ald. 154, 5),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 26.
to make, conclude a treaty of peace :--
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  • Hé gedyde þone yfelan friþ on Numantium

    infamia de foedere apud Numantiam pacto,

    • Ors. 5, 3;
    • S. 220, 19.
Grammar
ge-dón, gedón tó
to make, cause to become, cause to take the character of.
of persons
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  • Þá óðre þeóde hé tó gafolgieldum gedyde

    caeteras urbes vectigales fecit,

    • Ors. 3, 9 ;
    • S. 124, 7.

  • Hé monege gedyde tó martyrum

    plurimos ad coronas Christi de suis cruciatibus misit,

    • 6, 22;
    • S. 274, 5.

  • Hié nánne mon geweligian ne magon, búton hié óþerne gedón tó wǽdlan,

    • Bt. 13, ;
    • F. 40, l. Hé
    nolde hí tó flýmum gedón,
    • Ps. Th. 77, 27.
of things
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  • Wé hine willað ácwellan and ús tó mete gedón,

    • Bl. H. 231, 15.

  • Þúsend daga bið gedón tó ánum sunnandæge,

    • Wlfst. 210, 5.
to make, cause a person to do something,
with a clause
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  • Ðǽre scame ic gedoo ðæt ðú forgietsð,

    • Past. 207, 11.

  • Þú gedést þæt hí þé geseóþ,

    • Bt. 33, 4;
    • F. 132, 35: Met. 20, 272.

  • Hé gedyde þæt Octauianus sealde his swostor Antoniuse,

    • Ors. 5, 13;
    • S. 244, 28.

  • His þegnas lǽddon him tó þone eosol and gedydon ꝥ hé þǽr on gesittan mihte

    adduxerunt asinam . . . et eum desuper sedere fecerunt

    (Mt.
    • 21, 7),
    • Bl. H. 71, 6.

  • Gedó þú ꝥ eall cynn cweþe . . .,

    • 159, 5.
with acc. and infin., whose logical subject is the preceding acc.
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  • Matheum hé gedyde gangan,

    • Bl. H. 239, 16.
with acc. and clause, whose subject is the pronoun representing the preceding acc.
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  • Þá sunnan þú gedést ꝥ heó þá þeóstre ádwǽscþ,

    • Bt. 4;
    • F. 6, 33.

  • Wundrum lytel mæg gedón þone man . . . ꝥ hé wénþ . . .,

    • 11, 1 ;
    • F. 32, 21.
with infin. alone, its subject being omitted
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  • Ic ofsleá and lifgan gedóm

    ego occidam et vivere faciam,

    • Ps. Srt. ii. 196, ll.
intrans.
to act
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  • Agathocles gedyde untreówlíce wið hiene,

    • Ors. 4, 5;
    • S. 170, 9.

  • Æfter þǽm þe Lisimachus hæfde swá wið his sunu gedón,

    • 3, n ;
    • S. 152, 12.
to do, fare
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  • Lá wel gedó þé, góda man,

    • Hml. S. 23;
    • 546.
as a substitute for a verb just used
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  • Ǽghwilc unriht áweorpe man . . . þæs þe man gedón mæge,

    • Ll. Th. i. 310, 11.
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v. ǽr-gedón, wel-gedón.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dón.” 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/47663.

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