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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.
fig. :--
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  • 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.
with clause :--
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  • 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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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-féran.” 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/47932.

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