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ge-racenteágian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-racenteágian, ge-racentteágian, ge-racodteágian; pp. od
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To chain, put in chains Hé wearð geracenteágod [and] betǽht tó þám gewinne (cf. hé wearð gelæht tó þám gecampe, and on racenteágum gelǽd, Hml. Th. ii. 500, 8), Hml. S. 31, 35. Geracodteágodum earmum catenatis lacertis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 47

Linked entry: racent-teágian

ge-drítan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-drítan, p. ge-drát; pp. ge-driten
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To drop excrement Nim þæt græs þǽr hund gedríteþ, Lch. i. 364, 9

Linked entry: dríting

ge-clyccan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-clyccan, p. ge-clyhte; pp. ge-clyht
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To bend, incurve the hand Ná sý ástreht hand þín tó nimene; heó sý tó syllene gecliht non sit porrecta manus tua ad captandum; sit ad dandum collecta, Scint. 99, 2

Linked entries: clyccan ge-cliht ge-cliht

ge-cnyccan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-cnyccan, p. ge-cnyhte; pp. ge-cnyht
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To bind together, connect Unácnycendlicre sibbes bende gicnyhtest insolubili pacis uinculo nexuisti, Rtl. 108, 21. Gicnyht tó lufe nexa fidei, 109, 41. Gebundeno foet and hond gecnyht (honda gecnyted, R.) ligatus pedes el manus institis, Jn. L. 11, 44

Linked entry: cnyccan

ge-dæft

(n.; adj.)
Grammar
ge-dæft, ge-dæftu; f.
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Gentleness, meekness Gáð tó þæs wyrtgeardes geate and mid gedæftum (tranquille) biddaþ and mid bletsunge nimaþ, Gr. D. 202, 12

Linked entry: -dæft

ge-bearded

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-bearded, ge-beardede; adj.
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Bearded Heó wearð for þǽre mycclan gecynde and hǽte þæs lustes gebeardedu (-berd-, v.l.) calore nimio contra naturam barbas esset habitura, Gr. D. 279, 14

ge-medmicel

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-medmicel, This should be taken under <b>ge-medummicel, ge-medemmicel.</b>

Similar entry: medum-micel

ge-þyldo

(n.)
Grammar
ge-þyldo, ge-þyldu; f. indecl.
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Ben. 135, 8; Guth. 50, 26: Gr. D. 20, 16. On eówrum geðylde, Past. 218, 24: Lk. 21, 19: Hml. Th. ii. 544, 4: Hml. A. 21, 176. Hé eal geðyld gecýþde, Bl. H. 123, 3 a. ge-þýldo (-u); f. Wundorlicre geðyldo man, Gr. D. 283, 18.

ge-hwearf

Grammar
ge-hwearf, ge-hwerf.
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Geseoh, ic þé sylle þysne man tó gehwearfe for hine ecce, hunc hominem pro eo vicarium praebeo, Gr. D. 180, 20 : 181, 28

ge-hýþelic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-hýþelic, ge-hýþlic; adj.
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Gl. Gehýðlic, Ps. Spl. T. 144, 16

ge-cope

Grammar
ge-cope, l. ge-cóp,
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and add ꝥ seó stów mihte beón gecóp ( aptus ) wyrta on tó settanne, Gr. D. 49, 8.

ge-manigfildan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-manigfildan, ge-manigfealdan; p. de.
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Take here <b&gt;ge-mænigfyldan</b&gt; in Dict. and add: To multiply, to make numerous Þú woldest mÍnne ofspring gemenigfyldan swá sǽceosol þe nán man átellan ne mæg, Gen. 32, 12.

Linked entries: ge-mænigfildan ge-menigfealdan

ge-hýþþu

(n.)
Grammar
ge-hýþþu, ge-hýþþo, indecl. f.
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(v. ge-blǽdfæstness.)

ge-stihtian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-stihtian, ge-stihtan.
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Ne cwaeft he hit ná gestihtiende ac þýwende (aoa jíecernendo, s'ed minando), Gr. D. 151, 7. to dispose, arrange, to arrange people He gestihte his werod swá him gewunelic wæs, Hml.

ge-brítan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-brítan, p. te; pp. ge-briacute;ted, ge-brítt
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Take here ge-brytan (l. -brytan) in Dict. and add Gebrýtte fricabat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 39. lit. Ðeós wyrt hafað geoluwe blóstman, and gif þu hý betweónan þínum fingrum gebrýtest, þonne hafað heó swæc swylce myrre, Lch. i. 256, 9.

ge-búr

Grammar
ge-búr, ge-býr.
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Hit gelamp in Samni ꝥ sumes ríces mannes tún wæs, in ðám his gebúr ( colonus ) hæfde sunu, Gr. D. 11, 4. Níwum gebúrum rudibus (florulentae telluris) colonis, An. Ox. 11, 87. as a technical English term it has much the same meaning as villein, v.

Linked entry: ge-býr

ge-creópan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-creópan, p. ge-creáp, pl. ge-crupon
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To creep, crawl. of a human being Hé ne meahte gangan, ac hé gecreáp in þá ciricean he could not walk, but he crawled into the church, Shrn. 126, 25. of a reptile Gecreáp þǽr inn tó þám hálgan men sum unhýre nǽddre, Gr. D. 211, 13

Linked entry: creópan

ge-stician

(v.)
Grammar
ge-stician, ge-sticcian. l. ge-sticcan,
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and add Sume hig wǽron myd sperum gesticode, Hml. A. 186, 164

ge-ting

Grammar
ge-ting, v. ge-þyncg, ge-þyncgo.

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ge-hýran

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

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