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  • Ic wefe texo, gewefen

    texta,

      Wülck. Gl. 188, 9.
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  • Þicce gewefen hrægel pavidensis vestis, þenne gewefen hrægel

    levidensis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 11, 12.

  • Cyrtel giwefen (geuoefen, L.) ðerh alle

    tunica contexta per totum,

      Jn. R. 19, 23.

  • Web rislum and pihtine wæs gewefen

    peplum radiis et pectine tenebatur,

      An. Ox. 3742.

  • Mid gewefenum wǽfelsa

    consuta plecta,

    2391.

  • Gewefene

    contexta (serta ),

    3935.
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  • Ic (

    the creation

    ) eall ymbwinde gewefen wundorcræfte,
      Rä. 41, 85.

  • Of Críste wið tó God endebrednis gegeadred bið ł gewefen

    a Christo usque ad Deum ordo contexitur,

      Lk. p. 4, 10.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-weban texere, con-, in-texere.]
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v. gold-gewefen.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wefan.” 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/50412.

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