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Substitute: To wet, moisten
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  • Geuuéted

    madefacta,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 113, 73.

  • Gehwéteð

    madefactum,

      58, 49.
the subject a person
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  • Foxes sina genim and on hunige gewǽt,

      Lch. i. 340, 17.
  • Gedó on scearp eced, gewǽte swíðe, ii. 192, 19.

  • Onsend Ladzarus ðætte hé gewǽte (

    intingat

    ) his ýtemestan finger on wættre,
      Past. 309, 6.

  • Stingendum miggan gewǽtte

    putenti lotio umectaretur,

      An. Ox. 3470.
the subject the moisture
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  • Se ele feóll ofer þa brerdas þǽre bydene and gewǽtte (

    inundabat

    ) þone flór,
      Gr. D. 160, 13.

  • Streámas ... ná him gewǽttan fót þá hí on Iordane gengdan æfter

    abierunt in sicco flumina,

      Ps. Th. 104, 36.

  • Strengas gurron, wǽdo gewǽtte,

      An. 375.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wǽtan.” 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/50372.

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