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ge-hlinian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-hlinian, ge-hleonian; p. ode.
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of a person, to recline, rest, sit at table Sé ðe gehlinað (-hlionað, R.) . . . sé ðe gehrestað (gihlionað, R.) qui recumbit . . . qui recumbit Lk. L. 22, 27. Gehlionade discubuit, 7, 36: recubuit II, 37. Gehlionade ł geræste recumbens Mt. p. 8, 17.

ge-horwian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-horwian, ge-horgian, ge-horian; p. ode.
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to defile. with material filth, to spit upon Ongunnun summe efne-gespitta ł gehorogæ ( conspuere ) hine. Mk. L. 14, 65. Gehoræd bið ( conspuetur ), Lk. L. 18, 32. [Cf. Gé mid horu speówdon on his andwlitan El. 297.] with moral impurity Gálnyss gehorwigende

Linked entries: ge-horian -horwian

ge-hreówness

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hreówness, penitence, repentance, v. ge-hreonis
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in Dict

ge-hwearf

Grammar
ge-hwearf, ge-hwerf.
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Add: — Ðis is biscopes gehwearf and ðára hígna ðára londa æt Beórhám . . . (cf. in the charter so endorsed: Placuit archiepiscopo ejusque familia . . . aliquam vicissitudinem terrarum inter se habere), C. D. B. i. 526, 19. Wes ðises gehwerfes tó gewit-nesse

ge-hwearfness

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hwearfness, ge-hwerfness, e; f.
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Conversion S Paules gehwerf-nes tó Críste, Shrn. 58, 26. Sé ðe nú giet on synnum is, næfð hé nó forlǽten ðone trúwan his gehwearfnesse ( conversions); ac sé sé ðe æfter his gehwerfnesse (post conversionem ) tó lange wlæc bið, ðonne lytlað him se tóhopa

Linked entries: ge-hwerfness -hwearfness

ge-hýran

Grammar
ge-hýran, Add: , <b>ge-hýrian
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</b>Gehýrud conducus, Germ. 394, 193

ge-hýþelíce

(adv.)
Grammar
ge-hýþelíce, ge-hýþlic; adv.
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Conveniently, suitably Æfter þám beó him gegearewod gehýðlíce eal mennislic fremfulnes post hec omnis ei exhibeatur humanitas, R. Ben. 83, 18. Gehýþlícor commodius, congruentius, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 3

Linked entry: -hýþelíce

ge-hýþelicness

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hýþelicness, (printed ge-lisþelicnis) glosses opportunitas, Ps. Spl. T. 9, 9.
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See also Nap. 81

ge-íþan

Grammar
ge-íþan, <b>ge-éðtan</b> in Dict., and add: to be gentle. v. eáþe,
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Take here Ic þé bidde ꝥ þú áríse, and wit þonne bégen biddan ꝥ God þysum wífe geýþe (gemiltsige, v. l. ), Gr. D. 216, 2. See next word

Linked entry: -íþan

ge-læswian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-læswian, l. ge-lǽswian,
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and add: to pasture, feed cattle Ic gilése scíp míno ego pascam (printed parcam, but see Ezech. 34, 15) oves meas, Rtl. 10, 3. Ðá ðe gelésuadon qui pascebant, Lk. L. 8, 34. Ꝥte gelésuade ł gefoede ðá bergas ut pasceret porcos, 15, 15. Hú is nú gelǽswod

ge-landa

Grammar
ge-landa, Take here <b>ge-londa</b> in Dict., and add
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Contribulus, i. ciues, consanguineus mǽg, gelanda, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 76. Fratres gebróþor, et aliquando gemǽgas, aliquando gelondan, quas Latin i paternitaies interpretantur, 39, 47. Fratres gebróþru vel gelo[n]dan vel siblingas, i. 52, 3

ge-léd

(n.; v.)
Grammar
ge-léd, ge-loed, ge-leód, gloed glosses catasta (
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catasta instrumentum torquendi, genus lecti ferrei, quo, impositis Christianis, ignis supponebatur, Migne) Catasta, genus supplicii vel woepe, eculeo simile, nomen ludi vel geléd, quadrupalium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 45. Geloed (gloed, Ep., geleód, Erf.)

Linked entries: ge-loed gæleþ

ge-légu

(n.)
Grammar
ge-légu, (?), ge-legu (?)
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a tract of land. Cf. (?) leáh(-g). In the following compounds Confiniae terrae, ab australi plaga Uuisleág . . . a septemtrionale Meósgelégeo (-leg- ?), C. D. B. i. 266, 26. On marge wei and Grimgelége, C. D. v. 136, 2. Wið ráhgeléga, iii. 391, 32

Linked entries: ráh-gelégu -légu ge-légeo

ge-lemian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-lemian, to cripple, disable. v. ge-læmed
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in Dict

Linked entries: lemian ge-læmed ge-læmed

ge-leoran

Grammar
ge-leoran, l. ge-leóran,
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and add: of persons, to pass away from this life, die Ne gelióreð ( transibit ) cneóreso ðiós oð ðæt alle ðás geworðe, Mk. L. R. 13, 30. Gelióreð praeteribit, Lk. L. R. 21, 32. Geliórade obiit, Lk. p. 2, 4. Ðý dæge ðe se abbod geleórde, Shrn. 65, 21.

ge-libban

(v.)
Grammar
ge-libban, ge-lifian, ge-leofian; p. ge-lifde, ge-lifode, ge-leofode
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To live. to be alive Mið ðý gehérdon ꝥte gelifde and geséne wǽre, Mk. L. 16, 11. to pass life under specified conditions :-- Sume on hǽðenscipe gelifdon, Ll. Th. ii. 366, 13. Gif swá biþ geleofad si sic vivitur, Ps. L. 185 a, 16. to escape spiritual

Linked entries: ge-leofian ge-lifian

ge-líffæstan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-líffæstan, ge-líffæstian; p. ge-líffæste, ge-líffæstade; pp. ge-líffæst, ge-líffæsted.
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to make alive. of physical life Se Fæder áwecð þá deádan and gelíffæst, Jn. 5, 21. Þurh þone gást syndon gelíffæste ealle þá gesceafta þe se Fæder gesceóp, Hml. A. 2, 20. of spiritual life Þú gelíffæst mé viuificabis me, Ps. L. 137, 7: 142, II. Swá

ge-liger

Grammar
ge-liger, l. ge-ligere (ge-ligre),
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and add Geligere adulterium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 76. Ic eom ondetta sodomiscre synne þe hié on gegyltan, þæt is geligre, Angl. xi. 98, 21. Geligeres prostibuli (v. forlig-gang), Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 77. Þurh ꝥ grimme bismergleów þæs mánfullan geligeres, Hml

ge-liþian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-liþian, ge-leoþian; p. ode
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To unloose, relax, release Hé his sylfes wyllan geleoðode (-liðode, v. l.) in him sylfum þǽre blisse geweald sponte sibi laetitiae frena laxabat, Gr. D. 203, 26. Þæt wé hwílon úre mód geliðian (-leoðigen, v. l.) . . . betweoh þás eorðlican carfulnysse

Linked entries: on-liþian ge-leoþian

ge-líþran

(v.)
Grammar
ge-líþran, ge-léþran
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to make frothy, to lather Gníd swíðe oþ ꝥ eall geléþred sié, Lch. ii. 18, 20: iii. 2, 3

Linked entry: ge-leðran

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