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to make a sound.
of persons,
to play an instrument
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  • Wé gesungun iúh mið hwistlum

    cantauimus nobis tibiis,

      Lk. L. 7, 32.
of a bird (cock),
to crow
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  • Gisingeð ðe hona

    cantabit gallus,

      Jn. R. L. 13, 38.

  • Ðe hona gisang,

      18, 27 : Mk. R. L. 14, 68 : Lk. R. L. 22, 60.

  • Hona gesang ł gecráwæ (creów,

      R. ), Mt. L. 26, 74.

  • Aer ðon se hona gesinga (gisunge,

      R.), Mk. L. 14, 72.
to sing praise, glory, &c. to a person,
repeat words which express
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  • Ðǽm wé gesinga wuldur

    ipsi cantantes gloriam,

      Rtl. 163, 15.
to recite, repeat forms used in religious services (prayer, psalm, mass)
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  • Sé þe Pater noster inweardlíce gesingð,

      Ll. Th. i. 372, 29.

  • Án mæssepreóst him mæssan gesang,

      Hml. S. 4, 230.

  • Gá eft tó ciricean, gesing .xii. mæssan ofer þám wyrtum,

      Lch. ii. 356, 9.

  • Ðás fíf salmas gesing

    (decanta),

      Rtl. 183, 29.

  • Gesinge

    (cantet)

    hé fíftig sealma on cyricean oððe on óþre dígolre stówe,
      Ll. Th. ii. 134, Ii. Þ ǽlc gegilda gesinge án fíftig oþþe begite gesungen, i. 236, 37.

  • Mið ðý warð gebed gesungen

    facta oratione,

      Jn. p. 2, 2.

  • Þá seó cyrice gehálgad wæs and se bisceop mæssan gesungene hæfde,

      Bd. 5, 4; Sch. 567, 21.
to celebrate in words
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  • Sculan wé martira gemynd . . . wrecan wordum forð, wisse gesingan,

      Men, 70.
  • (O.H.Ger. ge-singan canere, psallere.)
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-singan.” 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/49684.

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