ge-gangan
to go ⬩ happen ⬩ take place ⬩ befal ⬩ to fall to one's share ⬩ to come in ⬩ ire ⬩ evenire ⬩ accidere ⬩ to exercise ⬩ effect ⬩ accomplish ⬩ exercere ⬩ perficere ⬩ efficere ⬩ to go against with hostile intention ⬩ to pass over ⬩ overcome ⬩ subdue ⬩ conquer ⬩ obtain ⬩ acquire ⬩ aggredi ⬩ transgredi ⬩ superare ⬩ subigere ⬩ oblinere ⬩ adipisci ⬩ possidere
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He hæfde elne gegongen, ðæt . . . he had effected by his valour, that . . . Beo.
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ge-rǽdan
to arrange, dispose, direct, advise, determine, ordain, consult for, provide for ⬩ decernere, statuere, edicere, consulere, providere ⬩ to enjoin ⬩ to arrange ⬩ to read ⬩ legere
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Th. 132, 54; By. 36: Exon. 92 a; Th. 344, 24; Gn. Ex. 178. Ðá witan gerǽddan the counsellors ordained, L. E. G. 4; Th. i. 168, 15. Heó hire feax gerǽdde crines composuit, Bd. 3, 9; S. 534, 13.[Cf. Icel. greiða hár to dress the hair.]
scín-cræft
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the art by which deceptive appearances are produced, magic Ðis synt ða ídelnyssa ðisse worlde . . . scíncræft hae sunt vanitates hujus mundi . . . ars magica , L. Ecg. P. i, 8; Th. ii. 174, 34.
þancung
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Sáwla þancung thanksgiving by souls, Hy. 9, 45. Ic ete mid micelre þancunge manduco cum gratiarum actione, Coll. Monast.Th. 34, 29. Mid ealre þoncunga, Blickl. Homl. 31, 21. Hé underféng ða lác mid ðancunge, Homl. Th. ii. 170, 16.
Wóden
Woden
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Among the Roman gods Mercury seems to have been thought most nearly to correspond, and Wóden is rendered by Mercurius, e. g. Wóden Mercurium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 114, 4. Cf. Saga mé hwá ǽrost bócstafas sette. Ic ðé secge, Mercurius se gygand, Salm.
ymbren
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For Friday, Saturn and Wednesday, Tusser) ; the name of the four periods of fasting and prayer appointed by the Church to be observed in the four seasons of the year respectively.
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bídan
to wait ⬩ remain ⬩ to await ⬩ experience
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Bídendum prestulanti (eventus rerum), 75, 62. to attain by waiting, experience (with gen. ) Hwæt gif ic bíde merigenes what if I live to see the morning, Hml. S. 3, 584. þú scealt deáðes bídan, Gen. 922
ge-springan
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L. l, 28. to reach by spreading, spread and reach (fig.)
ge-cuman
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Add: to move to an object, to reach by moving His cræft . gecymð on ǽlcere ǽdre, Bt. 34, 11; F. 152, 1. Ðæt heáfod gecymð on ðǽre eorðan caput sese ad terram declinat, Past. 133, 2.
mónaþ
A month ⬩ lunar ⬩ calendar
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On swá hwilcum sunlícum mónþe swá se móna geendaþ, se byþ his mónaþ. Ic cweðe nú gewislícor; gyf se ealda móna geendaþ twám dagum binnan Hlýdan mónþe, ðonne byþ hé geteald tó ðam mónþe, Lchdm. iii. 244-250. Ðá án mónuþ ágan wæs, Gen. 29, 14.
se
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(h) by a clause in apposition :-- Ne sceal hé ðæt án dón, ðæt hé ána wacie, . Past. 28; Swt. 193, 21. (i) by relation to other objects mentioned :-- Se ðe ne gǽþ æt ðam gete intó sceápa falde, Jn. Skt. 10, 1.
forþ-gang
a going forth ⬩ progress ⬩ advance ⬩ processus ⬩ progressus ⬩ a passage ⬩ drain ⬩ privy ⬩ meātus ⬩ secessus ⬩ latrīna
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Eall ðæt on ðone múþ gǽþ, gǽþ on ða wambe, and byþ on forþgang asend quod in os intrat, in ventrem vādit, et in secessum emittĭtur, Mt. Bos. 15, 17: Mk. Bos. 7, 19. [vorðgong progress, A.R.]
Linked entry: forþ-geong
ge-trahtian
To treat ⬩ explain ⬩ expound ⬩ consider ⬩ tractāre ⬩ expōnĕre
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Ðá cwæþ Pilatus Hú clypedon hig and hú byþ hit getrahtnod on Hebreisc then said Pilate 'How did they call out and how is it explained in Hebrew,' Nicod. 4; Thw. 2, 31. Getrahtad interpretatum, Jn. Skt. Lind. 1, 38, 41: 9, 7.
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dyrstig-ness
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Se ealda feónd onféng swilce dyrstinysse (bylde, v. l., ausum ) tó ácwellanne, Gr. D. 75, 32. Gif hé þurh dyrstignysse hine onhefð mid módignysse si presumpserit, R. Ben. 112, 12. Hé þǽra gedwolmanna dyrstignesse ádwǽscte, Hml. Th. i. 70, 7. Add
stæf-gefég
a combination of letters ⬩ a forming of letters in writing
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Hwílon byþ ðæt stæfgefég on ánum stæfe, hwílon on twám, etc., Ælfc. Gr. 3; Zup. 7, 4-11.
Dorce-ceaster
DORCHESTER, Oxfordshire, the episcopal seat of the first bishop of the West Saxons, which was subsequently removed to Lincoln ⬩ Durocastrum, in agri Oxoniensis parte Berceriensi finitĭma
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D. 635] Cynegils was baptized at Dorchester by bishop Birinus, Chr. 635; Th. 47, 4, col. 1. Hér wæs Cwichelm gefullod onDorceceastre b[Dorces ceastre, Th. 46, 10, col. 1] in this year [A.
DOCCE
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DOCK, sorrel; lăpăthum = λάπαθoν, rumex Ðeós wyrt ðe man lăpăthum, and óðrum naman docce nemneþ, biþ cenned on sandigum stówum, and on ealdum myxenum this herb which is called lăpăthum, and by another name dock, is produced in sandy places, and on old
líðan
To go ⬩ sail
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To go [generally by sea], sail Ic tólíðe, ic líðe applicabo, Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 54. Monnum biþ gewunelíc ðæt hí líðaþ ðonne [ǽrra Líða, June] on sǽs bryme, Shrn. 88. 1. Ða ðe sǽ séceaþ mid scipe líðaþ qui descendunt mare in navibus, Ps. Th. 106, 22.
oððe
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Th. 137, 59; By. 207; Wald. 1, 16. oððe...oððe...either. ..or Oðða (oððe, MS. B.) mid freóndscipe oðða mid gefeohte vel amicitia vel ferro, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 26. Ðonne fóron hié oððe mid oððe on heora healfe, Chr. 894; Erl. 90, 6.
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