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ge-metgian

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to set a measure or
limit to something to prevent excess.
the object personal
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  • For ðǽm ðæt gé eówer mód gemetgien on ðǽm níðe

    ut in increpationis zelo se spiritus temperet,

      Past. 159, 15.
the object a thing
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  • Sé ðe gemetegað

    qui moderatur (sermones suos),

      Kent. Gl. 621.

  • Gif hí þone midmestan weg áredian willaþ, ðonne scylan hí selfe him selfum gemetgian þá winsuman wyrde; þonne gemetgaþ him God þá réþan wyrde,

      Bt. 40, 3; F. 238, 23-26.

  • Ðǽr ðǽr ðú neóde irsian scyle, gemetiga ðæt ðeáh,

      Prov. K. 24.

  • Micel niédðearf is ðæt mon mid micelre gemetgunge ðreáunga gelíðige and gemetgie necesse est ut magno moderamine correptio temperetur, Past. 159, 4.

    Temperantia,

    ꝥ is gemetgung, mid þǽre sceall seó sáwul ealle þing gemætgian, ꝥ hit tó swíþe ne sý, ne tó hwónlíce,
      Hml. S. 1. 161.

  • Ꝥ man sí gesceádwís and gemetigian cunne ge his spréce ge his swígan,

      Prov. K. 2.

  • Faestene gemetegude (moderata) scylon beón . . . for þí gehwǽde and gemetegud

    (temperatus)

    mete flǽsce and sáwle nytlic ys,
      Scint. 51, 9-11.

  • Beóð on twá healfa þǽre hǽtan twégen dǽlas gemetegode

    (the temperate zones), náðor ne tó háte ne tó cealde. . . Beóð twégen dǽlas on twá healfa þám gemetegodum dǽlum (-e, v.l. )

    . . . cealde,
      Lch. iii. 260, 23-262, 2.
to mitigate what is excessive,
allay, moderate
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  • Ðú gimetgadest (

    mitigasti

    ) légo fýra,
      Rtl. 100, 20.

  • Þú woldest gemetigan mýnne wóp modum vis habere lacrymas meas, Solil. H. 48, 22. II a. to modify by mixing, temper, prepare :-- Drync mínne mid wópe ic gemetgade

    (temperabam),

      Ps. Srt. 101, 10.

  • Ꝥ ýþ 1ígas gemetegie

    ut unda flammas temperet,

      Hy. S. 17, 14.

  • Þǽrtó hé sceal beón snoter, þæt hé . . . gemetgige þá snotornysse mid þǽre strengðe,

      Wlfst. 247, 20.

  • Þeós wyrt wið óman fremaþ on þás ylcan wísan gemetegud,

      Lch. i. 304, 24.

  • Uætro wíne gimetgado

    aquas vino temperatas,

      Rtl. 114, 36.
to manage properly, regulate, order, dispose
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  • Rícsend mæhtig gimetgað giscæfta wrixla

    rector potens temperat rerum vices,

      Rtl. 164, 12.

  • Hé gesceafta gesceapen hæfð, and þám æallum stiórð and hí æalle gemetgað,

      Solil. H. 59, 18.

  • Fægere hé gemetegode þǽra namena gelícnyssa,

      Angl. viii. 332, 3.

  • Ðæt sió hering getrymme and gemetgige ðæs wácmódan mód wið ðá tǽlinge,

      Past. 213, 2.

  • Hé sceal gemetgian swá cræftelíce his stemne

    tanta arte vox tem- peranda est,

      453, 12.

  • Ríxiende and gemetgende (

    moderans

    ) worulda ealle,
      Hy. S. 108, 33.

  • Gimetgende

    frenans,

      Rtl. 162, 26.

  • Hió bióð gemetgode

    temperantur (sortes a Domino),

      Kent. Gl. 586.

  • IV. to fix the measure or amount of :-- For ðǽre rihtwísnesse hé gereceð ðæs gyltes bóte, and for ðǽre mildheortnesse hé gemetgað þǽre scylde wíte, Ll. Lbmn. 474, ii. Gif hé cann gemetgian hwæt hine anhagige tó sellanne, hwæt hé healdan scyle

    si bene jus possidendi disponatur,

      Past. 341, 12.

  • Godes gecorenra wuldor is gemetegod be heora geeanmngum,

      Hml. Th. i. 446, 9.
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v. un-gemetgod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-metgian.” 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/48896.

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