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ge-féran

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to go
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  • Gefoerde abiit, Mk. L. 8, 13: ambulans, Mt. L. 4, 18 : egressus, 18, 28: exiebat, 3, 5: migravit, 19, l : procedens, 4, 21 : progressus, 26, 39 : secessit, 12, 15 : transiit, ii. l. Gefoerdon

    irent,

      Lk. L. 8, 31.
  • Ne durran wé for his onsýne geféran,

      Jul. 331.
  • Gefoera

    exire,

      Jn. R. i. 43.
  • Gefoerendte wæs profectus est, Mt. L. 25, 15. (l a) fig. :-- Þæt ic on þínre gewitnysse wel gefére converti pedes meos in testimonia tua, Ps.

    Th.

      118, 59,
to depart this life,
die
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  • Þá þe of middangearde wǽron tó geféranne (geleóranne, v.l. ) . . . heó geférde (geleórde,

    v.l.) qui de mundo essent rapiendi, . . . transierat.

      Bd. 4, 19; Sch. 444, 7, 15.
to fare
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  • Habbað wé ealle for þínum leásungum lyðre geféred,

      Sat. 62.
of events,
to go, to come, to pass, happen
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  • Eall swá hit æt þám ende eall geférde

    just as it in the end all happened,

      Chr. 1066 ; P. 200, 6.
trans.
to go, make a journey
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  • Hé uneáþe þone síð geférde,

      Guth. 68, 5.
  • Þá hí hæfdon heora síðfæt geféredne

    peracto itinere,

      Bd. 4, 25 ; Sch. 497, 18.
to travel a road,
traverse a surface (land, sea)
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  • Þone gársecg nǽnig mon mid scipe geféran ne meahte, Nar. 20, 18 : Bt. 18, 2 ; F. 62, 9 note. Ealde staðolas (

    the bottom of the Red Sea)

    ic ǽr ne gefrægn men geféran,
      Exod. 286.
to traverse a (great or small) distance
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  • Sume lǽsse gelíðað, oððe micle máre geférað,

      Met. 28, 23.
  • Þ nǽre mára weg þonne meahte on týn dagum geféran,

      Nar. 25, 3.
  • Hit næs micel tó geféranne,

      26, 3.
to gain, attain
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  • Hé sige geférde on manegum gefeohtum,

      Hml. S. 25, 730. (4 a) with clause :--
    Hafast þú geféred þæt þám folcum sceal sacu restan, B. 1855.
to bring about, effect
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  • Biówulfe wearð dryhtmáðma dǽl deáðe forgolden, hæfde ǽghwæðre (

    for Beowulf and the fire-drake

    ] ende geféred lǽnan lífes, B. 2844.
  • Þegn folgade, and micel hæfde geféred,

      Ru. 38, 4.
to meet with, experience, get as one's fate or
lot
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  • Gé weorn geférað earfoðsíða,

      An. 677.
  • Ic nyste hwæt mín fæder geférde

    I knew not my father's fate,

      Hml. S. 30, 334.
  • Hí hine áxodon be his wífe and his cildan hwæt hí geférdon, 276.
  • Hí þǽr ǽfre yfel geférdon,

      Chr. 1009 ; P. 139, 27.
with causative force, to cause to move, to bring, bear. (v.
O. Sax. gi-fórian to bring: O.H.Ger. gi-fuoren ferre, vehere.)
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  • Gefoerdun ł bróhtun

    afferebant,

      Mk. R. l, 32.
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v. un-geféred.
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