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ge-tucian

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-tucian, to torment, ge-tucian to adorn. Substitute: ge-túcian; p. ode.
to work metal (?)
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  • Þǽr stent cwén þé on þá swýðran hand mid golde getúcode (after hand on girelan might have been expected rendering in vestitu, and then mid golde getúcode (inst.) would = deaurato) and mid ǽlcere mislicre fægernysse gegyred

    adstitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato circumamicta varietate,

      Ps. Th. 44, 11.
to treat a person ill,
maltreat, afflict, inflict injury on.
of the effects of disease or accident
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  • Se heáhgeréfa wæs eall swá yfele getúcod swá Tranquillinus wæs ǽr (cf. Tranquillinus wæs geuntrumed þurh þá mycclan fótádle, 136),

      Hml. S. 5, 162.

  • Ic ungewealdes ætspearn æt ánum fótsceamole, and ic þá wearð þus getúcod(geslægen.

    v.l.) in scabello impegi, atque hoc pertuli,

      Gr. D. 22, 23
of punishment for wrong-doing
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  • Sum man wæs betogen ꝥ hé wǽre on stale ... hí dydon him út þá eágan. Hé cwæð ꝥ hé wurde wólíce swá getúcod,

      Hml. S. 21, 276.

  • Swilce hé for his synnum swá getúcod wǽre,

      Hml. Th. ii. 454, 17.
of malicious ill-treatment, persecution, &c.
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  • Hé Godes þá gecorenan wítnode and hí on yrmðum getintregode, and hí buton gewande getúcude (

    the MS. has the accent

    ) eall swá hé wolde,
      Hml. S. 23, 15.
  • Man hí tó eallre yrmðe getúcode, and heora lima man ealle tóbrǽd ǽlc fram óðrum, 71.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-tucian.” 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/50291.

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