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to imitate,
of a person,
with the object a person,
with acc. To act as another has done
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  • Þá þe þwyrlíce dóð, deóflu hi geefenlǽceað (

    demones imitantur

    ),
      Scint. 53, 16: 84, 11.

  • Ne geeuenlǽc þú wyrcende unrihtwísnesse,

      Ps. L. 36, 1.

  • Þæt þá unandgytfullan hine geefenlǽcen,

      R. Ben. 11, 17.

  • Þæt wé hine efenlǽcende mid geþylde earfeþa þolien,

      6, 1: Lch. iii. 440, 18.
with dat.
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  • Se man þe deófle geefenlǽcð, sé bið deófles bearn,

      Hml. i. 260, 12.
  • Hé geeuenlǽcð Gode, ii. 228, 3.

  • Hí ne geefenlǽcað ná Abrahame,

      Hml. A. 35, 266, 269: 46, 538.

  • Hyre geeuenlǽhton hyre cnihtas,

      Hml. S. 2, 101.

  • Þínum Drihtne geefenlǽc,

      21, 371.

  • Wé sceolon geefenlǽcan þysum hyrdum, and wuldrian úrne Drihten,

      Hml. Th. i. 44, i.
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  • Nelle þú geeuenlǽcan mid þám áwyrgendum

    noli emulari in malignantibus,

      Ps. L. 36, 1.

  • Earfoþe tó geefenlǽcenne,

      R. Ben. 138, 27.
the object the conduct of a person,
to do what another has done
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  • Hé Crístes gebysnunge árfæstlíce geefenlǽhte,

      Hml. Th. ii. 34, 16.

  • Ne ðú ne geefenléc

    nec imiteris (vias ejus ),

      Kent. Gl. 59.

  • Se abbod geefenlǽce þá bysene þæs árfæstan hyrdes

    pastoris boni piunt imitetur exemplum,

      R. Ben. 51, 16.
to act in accordance with a rule followed by another
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  • Hí geefenlǽcað þone cwide þe Drihten be him sylfum cwæþ

    hi illam domini imitantur sententiam,

      R. Ben. 20, 14.

  • Þæt hé mid dǽdum úres Drihtnes stefne geefenlǽce þe þus be him sylfum cwyð,

      26, 6.
of a thing,
to be like, resemble
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  • Ðeós wyrt is gecweden

    iris illyrica

    of ðǽre misenlicnysse hyre blóstmena for þý þe is geðúht ꝥ heó þone heofonlican bogan mid hyre bleó geefenlǽce,
      Lch. i. 284, 15.
to put on a level with, compare
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  • Geefenlǽhte

    compensat,

      Germ. 399, 298.

  • Geeuenlǽhte

    coaptat, i equiparat,

      An. Ox. 50, 28.
  • Þám ne mæg nán dǽdbéta beón geefenlǽht, for ðan ðe hí sind rihtwíse and behreówsigende. Hml. Th. i. 342, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-efenlǽcan.” 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/47818.

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