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  • Ic gesébe

    vel áfæstnie confirmo, i. astruo,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 28.

  • Geséþ

    conprobat,

    10.
to declare true, state as a fact, assert, affirm
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  • Hé geworhte twá mycle leóhtfatu swá Genesis geséð,

      Angl. viii. 299, 14.

  • Geséðað contendunt, i. dicunt (eundem in sarcofago vitaliter quiescere

    contendunt,

      Aid. 25, 26), An. Ox. 7, 100.

  • Wé magon ꝥ tó sóðe geséðan, ꝥ hyt swá wæs, for ðon wé habbað trume gewitnysse,

      Angl. viii. 307, 3.

  • Ús gedafenað þæt wé hit wénon swíðor þonne wé unrǽdlíce hit geséðan,

      Hml. Th. i. 440, 31.

  • Ealdorlicnesse is geséþed

    auctoritate asstipulatur ł adfirmatur,

      An. Ox. 217.
to shew by evidence the truth of a statement,
to prove
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  • Mid áfundennyssum wé geséþaþ

    experimentis i. argumentis astipulabimur,

      An. Ox. 3897.

  • Hé geséðde þæt heora

    (the Jews')

    forðfæderas Godes frýnd gecígede wǽron,
      Hml. Th. i. 558, 20.

  • Gif þú geséþan miht ꝥ ǽnig deáþlic man swelces hwæt ágnes áhte

    si cujusquam mortalium proprium quid horum esse monstraveris,

      Bt. 7, 3; F. 20, 7.

  • Ðú hit hæfst geséþed mid gesceádwíslicre race cuncta firmissimis nexa rationibus constant, 34, 9 ; F. 146, 7. II a. where a forecast is proved correct by the event :-- Þæs gehátes and þæs wítedómes sóð se afterfylgenda becyme þára wísena geséðde and getrymede

    (astruxit),

      Bd. 4, 29; Sch. 530, 13.

  • Wyrd wæs geworden, swefn geséðed,

      Dan. 654.
to attest, bear witness to what one has seen or knows
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  • Þysse wyrte onfundelnysse manega ealdras geséðað,

      Lch. i. 140, 10.

  • Geséþendum

    (ipso) adtestante,

      An. Ox. 1326.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-séðan.” 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/49640.

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