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to mean, purpose, design
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  • Ðá forlét hé, swá hé gemynte gefyrn, þone woruldlican campdóm,

      Hml. S. 31, 131.

  • Hé rád þyder hé ǽr gemynt hæfde

    ad hospitium, quo proposuerat, accessit,

      Bd. 3, 9 ; Sch. 231, 9.

  • God férde forð, swá hé gemynt hæfde, Gen. 18, 33. (l a) with case :-- Þá gemunde hé hwæt hé ǽr be ðan cilde gemynte he remembered what his intentions about the child had been, Hml. Th. i. 80, 12. (l b) with clause :-- God gemynte ꝥ he wolde þurh ꝥ wæter þá synne ádílegian

    praedestinavit Deus in aquis abluere peccatum,

      Angl. vii. 6, 55.
  • (l c) with dat. infin. :-- Hé árǽrde þæt tempel þe his fæder gemynte tó árǽrenne, Hml. Th. ii. 578, 9.

  • Hé gemynte þá máðmas tó genimenne, Hml. S. 25, 769. (l d) construction uncertain :-- Gemynte

    decreuit (contemnere),

      An. Ox. 2699.
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destine a thing for a person,
with dat. of person
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  • Ic stihte ł ic gemynte gekýþnysse mínum gecorenum

    disposui testamentum electis meis,

      Ps. L. 88, 4.

  • Hé sceal þæt wíte ðolian ðe hé ðé gemynte,

      Hml. Th. i. 372, 16.
  • Tó ðám éðele becuman ðe him se heofenlica Fæder gemynte, ii. 218, 19.

  • Heom þá wítu gemynte wǽron,

      Hml. S. 23, 112.
with prep,
tó
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  • Þ hé gemente tó Abrahame

    quod disposuit ad Abraham,

      Ps. L. 104, 9.
to destine a person to (
tó) a condition, fate, & c.
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  • Gif hé hine ǽr tó munucháde gemynte

    si prius se monachismo addixisset,

      Ll. Th. ii. 142, 10.
construction uncertain
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  • Ðæt gemynte irre

    molitam iram,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 37.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-myntan.” 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/48984.

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