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ge-habban

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  • Gehæbbende

    cohercens,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 21, 74.
to have, possess (of relative position)
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  • Gif hié (þíne menn) yfele sint, ðonne sint hié þé pleólicran gehæfd þonne genæfd,

      Bt. 14, 1; F. 42, 22.
to retain, detain, keep
a person
in a place
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  • Hé hí hwylcehwugu dagas mid him gehæfde

    eos aliquot diebus secum retinuit,

      Bd. 5, 10; Sch. 601, 9.

  • Hé þone ǽrendracan on ðám mynstre sume hwíle gehæfde (

    detinuit

    ),
      Gr. D. 39, 25.

  • Hé wæs gehæfd (-hæfed,

    v. l.) retentus,

      Bd. 5, 10; Sch. 597, 14: 5, 19; Sch. 658, 18.

  • Petrus wæs gehæfd on ðám cwearterne,

      Hml. Th. ii. 380, 31.
in a state or position
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  • Þám þe se æfterra deáð gegrípð and on écnesse gehæfð,

      Bt. 19; S. 47, 2.

  • Sió ungelícnes hira geearnunga hié tiéhð sume behindan sume, and hira scylda hí ðǽr gehabbað,

      Past. 107, 20.
a thing.
material
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  • Ne mæg ðæt scip nó stille gestondan, búton hit ankor gehæbbe,

      Past. 445, 13.

  • Wiþ ðon þe man ne mæge his mete gehabban, and hé spíwe,

      Lch. i. 76, 20: ii. 190, 8.
non-material
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  • Ðára synna gé gihabbað

    quorum peccata retinueritis,

      Jn. L. 20, 23.

  • Ne mæg hé þá swétnesse þisse worulde nó gehabban, gif heó hine fleón onginþ,

      Bt. 11, 1; F. 32, 36.
to restrain
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  • Hé hine gehæfde (

    restringeret

    ) fram ǽghwylcum unnyttum worde,
      Gr. D. 11, 8.

  • Ðæt gé eów gehæbben sume hwíle,

      Past. 99, 15.
to contain, have involved
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  • Gif ꝥ lange swá biþ, þonne gehæfþ hit on unéþelícne wæterbollan

    if that is so for long, then it has a dropsy hard to cure involved in it,

      Lch. ii. 204, 13.
to have room or
capacity for, to allow, suffer
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  • Þæt heora land ne wǽre tó þæs mycel, ꝥ hí mihton twá þeóde gehabban (on gehabban,

    v. l.) quia non ambos eos caperet insula,

      Bd. 1, 1; Sch. 11, 10.
to uphold, maintain, preserve
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  • Hé his ríce mid micelre uniéðnesse gehæfde,

      Ors. 6, 24; S. 276, 2.

  • Ne ic máran getilige tó haldænne þonne ic . . . þá men on gehabban and gehealdan mage þe ic forðian sceal,

      Solil. H. 35, 18.

  • Þyssera hyrda gemynd is gehæfd be-eástan Bethleem áne míle,

      Hml. Th. i. 42, 34.
to have, experience, be subject to
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  • On þám heofenlicum éðele nis nán niht gehæfd,

      Lch. iii. 240, 12.
to hold, keep in some relation to oneself
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  • Búton se hláford hine wille on borh gehabban,

      Ll. Th. i. 228, 28.
to have in the mind,
hold, entertain a feeling, &c.
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  • Fácn ne sceal mon on heortan gehabban dolum in corde non tenere, R. Ben. 17, 7. IX a. to exhibit (a feeling, &c.) in action :-- Gif hié ðá hálwendan forhæfdnesse gehabban ne mægen

    if they cannot be continent,

      Past. 401, 32.
to hold, consider as
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  • Hé for his lífes geearnunge wæs gehæfd (gehæfd and ongyten,

    v. l., habebatur

    ) micelre hálinesse man,
      Gr. D. 26, 6.

  • Þæs emnihtes dæg ys gehæfd, swá swá Béda tǽcð, þæs on ðám feórðan dæge,

      Lch. iii. 240, 5.

  • Nis se Fæder gehæfd gemǽnelíce Fæder from ðám Suna and þám Hálgan Gáste,

      Hml. Th. i. 498, 29: 32.
  • Gehæfd swilce hálig stów, ii. 506, 26.

  • Gehæfde

    habebatur (celebris ),

      An. Ox. 3606.

  • Hé befrán ðone pápan hwæt hí wǽron gehæfde (

    what they were considered to be

    ). Þá sǽde se biscop þæt hí sóðlíce wǽron hálige mæssepreóstas,
      Hml. Th. ii. 310, 12.
to hold, carry on, engage in
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  • Hí geðafedon þæt ðǽr cýping binnan gehæfd wæs, Hml. Th. i. 406, 6. XI a.

    to carry on

    an institution :-- Basilius tó þǽre byrig férde on þǽra wæs gehæfd ꝥ foresǽde mynster,
      Hml. S. 3, 325.
to treat well or ill
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  • Hé fram him fremsumlíce wæs onfangen and micle tíd mid him well gehæfd (-hæfed,

    v. l.) wæs (habitus est ),

      Bd. 4, 1; Sch. 340, 16.
  • XII a. of the effect of natural causes, e. g. sickness :---

  • Ꝥ þú síðige tó mé and míne untrumnysse gehǽle, for ðan þe ic eom yfele gehæfd,

      Hml. S. 24, 98.
intrans.
To have at (wiþ), to attack
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  • Drihten hig gehyrde, þæt hig gehæfdon (-hæfton, Thw.) wið hine, þæt hig feóllon on þám gefeohte ætforan Israhéla bearnum

    Domini sententia fuerat, ut indurarentur corda eorum et pugnarent contra Israel et caderent,

      Jos. 11, 20.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-habban.” 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/48179.

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