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ge-fandod

  • verb [ weak ]
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Substitute: ge-fandian; p. ode To try.
to examine, explore
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  • Hé þæt sóna onfand þæt hæfde gumena sum goldes gefandod, heáhgestreóna

    he soon found that some man had ransacked the treasure,

      B. 2301.
to try whether. Cf. fandian
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  • Þæt hié mósten gefandian hweðer hié heora medsélða oferswíþan mehte,

      Ors. 4, 4; S. 164, 28.
to experience, taste. Cf. fandian
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  • Sé ðe ús oferdrencð mid ðæs écan lífes liðe, hé gefandode geallan biternesse ðá hine ðyrstte

    aeterna nos dulcedine inebrians in siti sua fellis amaritudinem accepit,

      Past. 261, 15.
  • Ðá ðe gefandod habbað ðára flǽsclicra synna, ðá ðe ðæs nóht ne cunnon

    peccata carnis experta, eorum expertes,

      403, 7.
  • Þonne se án hafað þurh deáðes nýd dǽda gefondad,

      B. 2454.
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v. un-gefandod.
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