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ge-seón

Grammar
ge-seón, <b>; X.</b>
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Ðá hwíle ðe God gesegen hæbbe ( may have seen to it ) ðæt fulwiht æt ðeosse stówe beón móte, Txts. 175, 13. Add

ge-setness

Grammar
ge-setness, <b>; V.</b>
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Add Gif preóstas æfter heora gesettednesse ( secundum eorum rectitudinis normam) lifedon, Chrd. 2, 3. Add Of þisse gesettednysse þe ... wé gesetton ex ista institutione quam ... fecimus, Chrd. 28, 9.

Linked entry: ge-settedness

ge-sib

Grammar
ge-sib, <b>; I.</b>
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Ne talien gé eówre mágas ( parentes) eów gesibbran (propinquiores ) þonne þá þe mid eów wuniað on Godes húse, Chrd. 89, 20. Add

ge-staþolfæstnian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-staþolfæstnian, <b>; I.</b>
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Þone þreán þe hé wyle gestaþolfæstnian hé hogie quem castigare uult solidare studeat, Chrd. 123, 5. Add

ge-sweotulung

Grammar
ge-sweotulung, <b>; I.</b>
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Openon geswutelincgum is geypped euidentibus patet indiciis, Chrd. 64, 28. Add

ge-swinc

Grammar
ge-swinc, <b>; I.</b> add: <b>I b.</b>
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the produce of labour Ic háte ꝥ gé gangen, tó mínum cyricum, and þǽr gé eówer geswinc sellað (cf. ꝥ gé ágeofan ðá teóðunge tó Godes cyrican, 16), Wlfst. 229, 7

ge-tæl

Grammar
ge-tæl, v. heáfod-getæl, hundfeald-getæl, þúsendfeald-getæl.

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ge-þafa

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-þafera. 1. add: where a charge is admitted Swá hé eádmódra beó and his gyltes geþafera ( quantum plus se culpabilem asseruit ), swá micle mildelícor him ma(n) déme, Chrd. 29, 1

ge-þoftscipe

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Add: familiar intercourse, intimacy Be þám ꝥ preóstas geþoftscipe ( familiaritatem. Cf. wífa gelómlic tósócn, 36) næbbe wið fremde wíf, Chrd. 67, 34

ge-wǽpnian

(v.)
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In l. 7 after 333 add: 3, 273

ge-wascan

(v.)
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In l. 3 for hræglhús, gewoxene l. hræglhúse, gewaxene

ge-weaxan

Grammar
ge-weaxan, <b>; II.</b>
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Syððan Críst man wearð geweaxen, þá ðá hé wæs ðrítig wintra eald, Hml. Th. i. 258, 10. Add

ge-widere

Grammar
ge-widere, v. mis-gewidere, un-gewidere, untíd-gewidere.

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ge-wita

Grammar
ge-wita, <b>; I 1 a.</b>
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Gewita hira lífes drohtnunge testis uite eorum, Chrd. 54, 35. Add

ge-wunian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-wunian, <b>; I 2 a.</b>
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add: with adj. complement Gewunedon þá þwangas untogone dissolutae corrigiae remanserunt, Gr. D. 222, 2

ge-wyrcan

Grammar
ge-wyrcan, <b>; V.</b>
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Hé áxode ... hú hé geworht wǽre on woruldlicere drohtnunge (cf. hé ongan ácsian be his lífe, Gr. D. 322, 4), Hml. Th. ii. 356, 3. Add

gímran

Entry preview:

Cf. grymettan; I. first passage

gister-dæg

Grammar
gister-dæg, l.
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gister-dœ̂g

fugeloþ

Entry preview:

Add: f. God sendeð mycele fugeloð on þám geáre, Archiv cxxviii. 66, 5

full

Grammar
full, <b>; I 4.</b>
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xii cýpan fulle on þám gebrytsnum, E.S. 49, 345, 17. Add

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