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ge-hírsumian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Take here ge-hýrsumian in Dict. , and add:
to obey
a person
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  • Gif hí gehírsumedon heora Scippende on riht,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 7.

  • Ús ne hét ná se Hǽlend him gehýrsumian ús tó forwyrde,

      Hml. A. j, 124.

  • Þá; búrþénas ábudon þǽre cwéne þæs cyninges hǽse, ac heó hit forsóc and nolde gehýrsumian him to his willan,

      93, 43: Ll. Th. i. 194, 19.
a command, law, &c.
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  • Gehýrsumie pareat, i.

    obediat (praecepto)

    ,
      An. Ox. 296.
  • Hí hine hálsedon ꝥ hé gehýrsumode þæs engles wordum. Hml. A. 124, 263.

  • Gif gé willað mínum bebodum gehýrsumian,

      Hml. Th. i. 86, 34.
to obey a master, serve, be a servant to te huæd úsum gihérsumaiað hérnise ut quid nostro ministratur officio, Rtl. 106, 22. God sylf behét his hálgum þénum þe on clǽnum mægðháde him gehýrsumiað on his heofenlican húse, Hml. A. 41, 424. Ðé úe gihérsumiga tibi famulemur, 15, 32. Gehýrsumiendre ł þeówiendre
uernacula, i. famulante,
    An. Ox. 288.
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v. un-gehírsumod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hírsumian.” 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/48311.

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