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ge-stillan

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Add: A. intrans. To be or become still, cease from
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  • Ic gestille itel áblinne

    cessam, desistam, cessavero,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 4.
  • I. of persons or things.
not to be moving
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  • Eorðe cwfcede and gestilde

    (quievii),

      Ps. Srt. Vos. 75, 9.

  • Hi náuþer ne gestillan ne móton ne eác swíþor styrian,

      Bt. 21; F. 74, 7.
not to be active
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  • Swá styrigende is seó sáwul ꝥ heó furðon on slǽpe ne gestylþ,

      Hml. S. l, 132.

  • ZI. with respect to sound, to be silent, not to sound :--

    Ne

    gestilde nǽfre stefen cearciendes wǽnes.
      Lch. iii. 430, 33.

  • III. of violent action, pain, passion, &c. , to stop, subside, be allayed, be restrained: — Syððan gestilde se flód and gecyrde fram þám cyriclande

    se a terris ecclesiae fiuminis aqua compescuit,

      Gr. D. 194, 3 : An. 532.

  • Eall hellwara witu gestildon þá hwíle ðe hé hearpode,

      Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, 4.
  • B. trans.
to cause to be still, stop
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  • Gestillende

    conpescens,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 47.
to prevent motion
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  • Ðára unstillena gesceafta styring ne mæg ná weorþan gestilled. Bt. 21; F. 74, 4.
to stop action
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  • Hé ðá ealdan onsægednyssa ealle gestilde,

    Hml.

      Th. ii. 210, 15.

  • Hi woldon þá wíta gestillan,

      Hml. S. 5, 39.

  • Þæt gewinn wearð sume hwíle gestilled,

      Ors. 3, 5 ; S. 106, 5.
to stop an agent,
restrain from doing something,
with acc.
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  • Menn woldon sceáwian . . . ac God hi gestilde,

      Hml. S. 32, 243.

  • For þí . . . þæt he us fram middangeardes lufe gestilde, Hml. Th. i. 608, ii. Hé nǽfre byþ gestilled fram unrihtwlsra wrace ab iniquorum ultione. non sedatur, Gf- D- 335. 15 PS ne beo gestild

    ne compescaris.

      Ps. L. 82, 2.

  • Gestilled,

      Sal. 117.

  • Ne magon þá nnstillan woruldgesceafta weorþan gestilde,

      Met. Ii, 19. '
with rfat.
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  • Godes engel gestillde ðǽm horsum. Shrn. 72, 3.
in reference to sound,
to silence,
to prevent a sound
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  • Hi willað gestillan his stemne. Hml. Th. i. 156, 17.
to silence a person
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  • JJæt folc hine wolde gestyllan. Hé hrymde ðæs ðe swiðor,

      Hml. Th. i. 156, 19.
to allay, mitigate
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  • Gestilde

    miligaret,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 51.
to assuage, abate heat
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  • Gestilde sedans (torridacum gelidis

    sedans

    incendia flabris,
      Aid. 146, 36), Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 32.
to allay anger, passion, &c.
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  • Gestildes eorre ðín

    mitigasti iram tuam,

      Ps. Srt. 84, 4.

  • Hiora gitsunge gestillan,

      Past. 341, 17.

  • Ǽghwylc mennisc leahter on his cennendum gestilled wæs,

      Bl. H. 163, 16.
to calm excited persons
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  • Se eorl sylf earfoðlíce gestylde

    -& pound;

    folc,
      Chr. 1052 ; P. 180, 10.
Etymology
[O. Sax. gi-stillian to still a tempest: O.H.Ger. ge-stillen sedare, compescere, mitigare.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-stillan.” 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/49809.

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