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ge-mengan

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  • Gemenge

    confici,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, l. Ge-mængan, 104, 77.

  • Gemenged

    infectus,

    no, 68.

  • Gemengde

    infici,

      45, 53- Gemengde, gimaengdae, gimengdæ, Txts. 71, 1104.
  • A. trans.
to mix
two or more substances
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  • Þú þǽm gesceaftum mearce gesettest and hí gemengdest eác,

      Met. 20, 89.

  • Þú hæfst þá gesceafta gemengde, Bt. 33, 4; F. 130, 2. (l α) of non-material objects, to combine, associate :-- Gif ðá ðweoran and ðá unryhtwísan hiera yfel mid sibbe gefæstnigað and tósomne gemengað (-eað,

    v. l. ) si perversorum nequitia in pace jungitur,

      Past. 361, 12.
one or more substances with other(s).
with prep,
(wiþ, mid)
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  • Gif þú hi wiþ fýr ne gemengdest,

      Bt. 33, 4; F. 130,
    Hiora blód hé gemengde mið ásægdnisum hiora, Lk. L. R. 13, I. Genim wín and fearres geallan, gemeng wiþ þý leáce. Lch. ii. 34. 5.

  • Wín wið geallan gemenged (wið gallan gemænged,

      R., mið galla gemenceð, L.), Mt. 27, 34.

  • Þeáh hit wið ealla sié gemenged weoruldgesceafta,

      Met. 20, 128.

  • His líchama wæs gemengeð mid þǽre eorþan,

      Bl. H. 241, 26.

  • Loccas mid þisse eorðan synd gemengde,

      243, 35.
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  • Hrím and snáw hagle gemenged, Wand. 48. (2 α) of non-material objects :-- Hlehter sáre byð gemincged

    risus dolori miscebitur,

      Scint. 171, 11.
to prepare by putting various ingredients together, mix medicine, drink, &c.
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  • Hió gemende

    miscuit (vinum ),

      Kent. Gl. 286.

  • Gemenced ǽg (cf. ǽg-gemang)

    ocastrum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 290, 46.

  • Ne dranc hé wínes drenc, ne nánes gemencgedes wǽtan,

      Hml. Th. i. 352, 6.

  • II a. to mix and so lessen the strength of (fig.) :-- Earðlicum gifremnissum gimengadum

    terrenis affectibus mitigatis,

      Rtl. 18, 17.
to unite so as to form a whole:
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  • Þú gegæderast ðá hiofonlican sáwla and ðá eorþlican líchoman and hí on ðisse worulde gemengest,

      Bt. 33, 4; F. 132, 24.

  • Þú gemengest þá heofoncundan hider on eorðan sáwla wið líce; siððan wuniað þis eorðlice and þæt éce samod,

      Met. 20, 234.
to unite persons to others in dealings or intercourse, join, associate
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  • Ic mé tó middes heora gemengde and him tó cwæð: 'Nimað mé on eówer færeld,' Hml. S. 23 b, 373.
  • Ic mé tó þám ingangendum gemengde, 458.

  • IV a. of sexual intercourse, v. ge-mengness, -mengedness :-- Gif hié tó ungemetlíce hié gemengað on ðǽm hǽmede

    cum immoderatae admixtioni servientes,

      Past. 397, 11.
to disturb, throw into confusion, mix up. (i) the object material
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  • Oft smylte sǽsúþerne wind gedréfeð, þonne hié gemengað micla ýsta, onhrérað hronmere

    si mare volvens turbidus Auster misceat aestum,

      Met. 5, 9.

  • Se súþerna wind miclum storme gedréfeþ þá sǽ. . . heó þonne gemenged wyrþ mid ðámýþum,

    Bt. 6; F.

      14, 25.

  • Wæs on blóde brim weallende, ýða geswing eal gemenged,

      B. 848 : 1593.
the object non-material
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  • Ðæs cyninges ríce ge foreweard ge forðgang swá monigum styrenessum wiðerweardra þinga ýðiað and gemengde syndon, ꝥ ꝥ mon nú gyt gewitan ne mæg, hwæt be þissum man wrítan mæg. Bd. 5,

      23; Sch. 689, 2.

  • VI.

    to mix up, fail to distinguish, confound, confuse :-- Ne gemengende (con-fundentes )

    hádas ne edwiste tótwǽmende,
      Ath. Crd. 4.

  • Ðæt gimencged

    (mixta)

    aron alle, and in Marc moniga Lucas and éc
      Matheies, Mt. p. 3, 7.

  • VII.

    to infect

    with moral evil :-- Swá hyra aldor dyde máne gemenged,
      Dan. 184.

  • Synfulle beóð máne gemengde,

      El. 1296.

  • B. intrans. To mix, be mixed, unite to :-- Ðætte sió mennisce ólicung for nánum freóndscipe ðǽrtó ne gemenge (-mencge, v. l.) ut nihil se ei humanitatis admisceat in hoc, Past. 78, 9. ꝥ gecynd nyle nǽfre nán-wuht wiþerweardes lǽtan gemengan, for þám heora ǽgþer onscunað óþer

    agit cujusque rei natura quad proprium est, nec contrariarum rerum miscetur effectibus, et ultro, quae sunt adversa, depellit,

      Bt. 16, 3; F. 54' 36-
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-mengan.” 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/48869.

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