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absolute, to speak, (i)
to have the faculty of speech, not to be dumb
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  • Dumbo dyde ꝥte hiá gesprecas

    mutos fecit loqui,

      Mk. L. 7, 37.

  • Gebróht wæs him dumb, and geleicnade hine suǽ ꝥ hé gespræc,

      Mt. L. 12, 22.

  • Ðreátas geségon monigo gesprécon, 15, 31. (l a) to exercise the faculty of speech, not to be silent :-- Ne geléfde ðá gesprecca

    non sinebat ea loqui,

      Lk. L. 4, 41.
to talk, converse
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  • Mið ðý gespræce (wé gisprécun, R.) in woege dum loqueretur in via, Lk. L. 24, 32. (2 a) to talk with, converse together :-- Gesprécon betuién him

    conloquebantur ad inuicem,

      Jn. L. R. II, 56.

  • Efne gesprécon,

      Lk. L. 4, 36.

  • Ðá hiordas gisprecun (

    loquebantur

    ) bitwih him,
      Lk. R. L. 2, 15.

  • Mið him gesprécon, Mt. L. 17, 3: Lk. L. 9, 30. (2 b)

    to speak

    about :-- Nǽnig eáuunge gespræc of him,
      Jn. L. R. 7, 13.

  • Þá þá hí umbe óþer þing gesprecon hæfdon, Chr. 1070; P. 206, 9. (2 c)

    to speak

    to or with some one about something :-- Tó faeder of brehtnise his gespræc,
      Jn. p. 7, 18.

  • Ðá ilco gesprécon him bituih of ðǽm allum,

      Lk. L. R. 24, 14.
of public speaking
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  • Mið ðý gespræc,

      Lk. L. 11, 37.

  • Hé lǽrde ðá menigo, ꝥte geblann gespreaca,

      5, 4.
with cognate object.
a noun denoting speech or a pronoun referring to a statement, to speak words, &c.
say
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  • Word Godes gispreces

    (loquitur

    ], Jn. R. L. 3, 34.

  • Word hé gespræce,

      Mk. L. 8, 32.

  • Gespræc Beówulf gylpworda sum,

      B. 675.

  • Hiera sundorsprǽce þe hié gesprǽcan

    the colloquy they were to have,

      Ors. 4, 10 ; S. 202, 13.

  • Ðá ðe gespreccenda woeron ðá wítgo,

      Lk. L. 24, 25.

  • Siððan he hit gesprecen hæfð,

      Past. 81, 7: Ors. 2, 8; S. 92, 8.

  • Ðá ðis gesprecen wæs, Bt. 18, I ; F. 60, 18. (l a)

    to speak

    to a person :-- Fela Daniel tó his drihtne gespræc sóðra worda,
      Dan. 594.

  • Huæt gespræce him, Jn. L. 10, 6. (l b)

    to speak

    of :-- Monigo of his micelnise gespræc,
      Lk. p. 5, 12.
where the object denotes the matter expressed in the words spoken
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  • Þ ué uuton ué gesprecas (-spreocas,

      R.), Jn. L. 3,
where the object is that which is spoken about,
to speak about
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  • Þá wǽre and þá winetreówe þe git on ǽrdagum oft gesprǽcon,

      Bo. 52.
the object a clause
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  • Wæs gesprecen ðurh Salomonn bi ðǽm Wísdóme ðæt se Wísdóm wille sóna fleón ðone ðe hine fliéhð,

      Past. 247, 16.

  • Þá hé hæfde gespecen þat hé wolde,

      Chr. 1048; P. 173, note I.
with a personal object.
to speak to a person,
accost
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  • Ic gesprece sumne mann

    adorior,

      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 219, l. Tó
    þám burnan þe wytt unc ǽrest gesprǽcon, Hml. S. 23 b, 707.
of more or less formal speech,
to address
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  • Hé árás and þá gebróðru gespræc (cf. him tó spræc

    fratres allocutus est.

      Gr. D. 105, 16) : '
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  • Heó gespæc deór

    alloquitur bestiam,

      An. Ox, 4899.
  • Hé cwæð ꝥ hí Críst gespræce þysum godspellicum wordum: 'Ne háte ic eów ná þeówan . . .,' Hml. S. 2, 86.

  • Gesprecendum

    contionante,

      An. Ox. 3459.
to speak in reproof, exhortation, &c.
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  • Þá lufode hé hine, and gelóme hine gespræc tihtende tó geleáfan,

      Hml. S. 3, 573.

  • Se hálga wer hine eft gespræc and git þryddan síðe, and swýðe hine þreáde,

      21, 59.

  • Þá englas þá hwíle Heliodorum gesprǽcon, sǽdon ꝥ hé sceolde Onian mycclum þancian,

      25, 789.
to speak with, have an interview with
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  • Hí áxodon hwæðer Petrus þǽr wununge hæfde, woldon hine gespræcan,

      Hml. S. 10, 112.

  • Hé hét him to gelangian þá deófolgildan . . . wolde hí gesprecan,

      18, 370.

  • Ðeós tíd cymð ymbe twelf mónað, ꝥ ǽlc man sceal his scrift gesprecan

    (confessarium suum alloqui),

      Ll. Th. ii. 224, 33.
to agree, settle
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  • Þá gesprǽcon hié him betweónum þæt hié wolden anwendan ealle þá gesetnessa,

      Ors. 6, 10 ; S. 264, 19.

  • Hí tó fullan friðe gesprǽcon ꝥ hig ealle mid him súð faran woldon,

      Chr. 1066; P. 197, 31.

  • Tostig eorl him cðm tó mid eallum þám þe hé begiten hæfde, eall swá hý ǽr gesprecen hæfdon,

      P. 196, 26.
  • (O.Sax. gi-sprekan : O.H.Ger. ge-sprehhan loqui, dicere, alloqui, compellare, convenire, constituere.)
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sprecan.” 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/49758.

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