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Add: pp. ge-íht.
to add.
with the idea of supplementing or completing,
to put to something already placed.
of a material object
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  • Ofgif þǽre eorðan ꝥ hire is, and ꝥ dúst tó þám dúste geíc,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 751.

  • Genim þás wyrte wel gepunude . . . geýc þonne þǽrtó sumne dǽl huniges,

      Lch. i. 312, 11.
to associate one person with another
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  • Fylstende and geécende

    adstipulans,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 39.
of non-material objects
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  • Þá geécte hé þǽrtó ꝥ word 'þines múðes,' Gr. D. 139, 10.

  • Þá geíchte (-yhte,

    v. l. -écde, L., -écte, R.) hé (adiciens )

    sum bigspell,
      Lk. 19, 11.

  • Tó wæccenne foresægde . . ., geécte bisin (

    subjiciens parabolam

    ),
      Mt. p. 19, 16.

  • Tó gécde

    addens,

      Jn. p. 5, 13.

  • Stonde ꝥ ic and míne witan tó mínra yldrena dómum geýhton,

      Ll. Th. i. 272, 32.

  • Ne geéc ðú

    ne addas (quidquam verbis illius ),

      Kent. Gl. 1074.

  • Sí geáht

    addetur,

    296.

  • Geéced (-ad)

    addita,

      Mt. p. 2, 13, 2.
with the idea of increase, augmentation,
to provide more, give in addition
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  • Tó geécað

    addunt (divitiae plurimos amicos ),

      Kent. Gl. 667.

  • Hé geíhte þá teáras þám teárum,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 200.

  • Hé tó geécde óðerne esne,

      Lk. L. 20, 11, 12.

  • Geéce tó leng his elne án,

      12, 25.
of numerical calculation
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  • Geýc twelf þǽrtó,

      Angl. viii. 301, 20.
to grant (
additional) good to a person
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  • Tó geécð

    addet (labiis ejus gratiam ),

      Kent. Gl. 569.

  • Gesald bið ł geéced (-íct, W. S.) bið iówh

    adicietur uobis,

      Mk. L. R. 4, 24.

  • Ðás ealle geéced biód eów,

      Mt. R. 6, 33.

  • Geíhte (géced,

      L.), Lk. 12, 31.
to add to
by way of supplement or completion. Cf.
1
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  • Swíðe wel hé hit geiécte (-ícte, v. l.) mid ðissum, þá hé cwæð . . .

    apte subjungitur . . .,

      Past. 161, 18.

  • Þá witan þá syþþan wǽron oft ꝥ seolfe geníwodon and mid góde gehíhtan,

      Ll. Th. i. 166, 9.

  • Hé cwæeth; ꝥ hé ne cóme nó þás bebodu tó brecanne, ac mid eallum gódum tó geécanne (cf. non veni solvere legenr sed adimplere,

      Mt. 5, 17), 56, 2.

  • Þonne deáh þis wiþ hunige geýced,

      Lch. ii. 252, 15.
to increase, augment, enlarge. Cf.
2
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  • Hé geiécð (-ícð,

    v. l.

    ) ðá ídelnesse ðe hé of áceorfan sceolde,
      Past. 93, 21: 411, 30.

  • Se mónð þe byð embolismus . . . geícð ꝥ gér ꝥ þæs geáres beóð þreóttýne mónðas,

      Angl. viii. 309, 32.

  • Hé Rómána bismer on þǽm færelte geiécte swíþor

    turpiorem ipse auxit infamiam,

      Ors. 5, 2; S. 216, 16.

  • Octauianus gerýmde Rómána ríce . . . and wæs for ðí Augustus gecíged, þæt is, 'geýcende his ríce.' Se nama gedafenað . . . Críste . . . sé ðe his heofonlice ríce geýhte,

      Hml. Th. i. 32, 18-22.

  • Geíc (-éc, L. R.) úrne geleáfan

    adauge nobis fidem,

      Lk. 17, 5.

  • Gif hwá . . . þás úre gyfe geieácnian wille oððe gemonifældan, geiéce him God eal gód hér on worlde,

      Cht. Th. 125, 19.

  • Ꝥ hé geéce

    ut augeat,

      Kent. Gl. 833.

  • Geíht

    auctus,

      Wülck. Gl. 251, 2.

  • God hæfð geéced mínne ege,

      Bt. 39, 2; F. 212, 33.

  • Gehíhte

    macta,

      An. Ox. 4, 64.
to furnish, endow. Cf. I. 4, and see eácen
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  • Þonne bið geýced and geedníwad moncyn þurh Meotud (cf. Sceal þonne ánra gehwylc . . . leoðum onfón and líchoman, edgeong wesan, 1030-3),

      Cri. 1040.
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v. má-geéct, tó-geíht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ícan.” 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/48508.

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