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ge-métan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-métan, he -méteþ, -métt, -mét; p. -métte, pl. -métton; pp. -méted, -métod, -métt, -mét
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Ge-méte gé hine invĕnies eum, Deut. 4, 29. Gif ic geméte fíftig rihtwísra wera si invĕnĕro quinquaginta justos, Gen. 18, 26, 28. Gif hwá þeóf geméte if any one find a thief, L. C. S. 29; Th. i. 392, 14: L. In. 49; Th. i. 132, 12.

Linked entries: métan ge-mittan

ge-mǽn-sumian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-mǽn-sumian, -mǽn-suman; p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad [ge-mǽne communis]
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To do or have anything in common with another, to communicate to or share with another, to marry; communicare, nubere Wylladon us ða þing gemǽnsuman [MS. gemǽnsumian] ea nobis communicare desiderastis, Bd. 1, 25; S. 487, 14. Gemǽnsumad nuptus, Mk. Skt

ge-drípan

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Germ. 391, col. 2, 18

ge-mæcca

(n.)
Grammar
ge-mæcca, -mæccea, an; m. and f.
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Be Euan his gemæccan by Eve his wife, Gen. 4, 1 : 28, 1 : Homl. Th. ii. 498, 26. He onféng hys gemæccean accepit conjugem suam, Mt. Bos. 1, 24. [O. H. Ger. gi-mahha conjux.] Cf. ge-maca

Linked entries: ge-mecca mæcca

ge-seón

(v.)
Grammar
ge-seón, -sión, ic -seó, ðú -sihst, he -syhþ; p. -seah, ðú -sáwe, pl. -sáwon, -ségon; imp. -syh, -seoh; subj. pres. ic -sáwe; pp. -sawen
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Th. 4901; B. 2455: Cd. 37; Th. 48, 30; Gen. 783: 64; Th. 78, 12; Gen. 1292.

Linked entry: ge-sión

ge-munan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-munan, ic, he -man, -mon, pl. -munon; also ic -mune, he -monþ, pl. -munaþ; p. -munde; pp. -munen [a verb whose present tense is the past tense of a lost strong verb, cf. Lat. memini]
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Ðonne gé gemunaþ Drihten eówerne God when ye remember the Lord your God, Deut. 4, 29. Ðá gemunde God sunu Lameches then God remembered Lamech's son, Cd. 71; Th. 84, 33; Gen. 1407: 121; Th. 156, 8; Gen. 2585.

Linked entries: ge-mon ge-monan ge-mynan ge-mýste

ge-strínan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-strínan, -striénan; p. de; pp. ed
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To obtain, get, acquire, beget, procreate; acquīrĕre, gignĕre, procreāre Ðæt gé me mid rihte gestrínan mágon what ye may justly acquire for me, L. Ath. i. prm; Th. i. 196, 16. Se ðe bearn gestriéneþ he who begets a child, L.

Linked entries: ge-streónan ge-strínian ge-strýnan

ge-píned

(v.)
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Substitute: <b>ge-pínian;</b> p. ode To torment, punish [Ðá þá leásen gewíten hí swíðe gepínedon, Hml. A. 174, 161. Hé heom átealde of þan Nazarenisscen kinge, hwu hé gepíned wæs, 194, 38.] Gepínodes semustulati, Germ. 397, 348.

ge-sibling

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Mǽglicum ł ge-sibli(n)gum contribulibus, i. parentibus, Hpt. Gl. 403, 18. Add

ge-lícian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-lícian, p. ode.
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Ger. ge-líhhen assimilare.] to like (v. N. E. D. like to seem, lock like), seem likely.

ge-sýman

(v.)
Grammar
ge-sýman, -séman. -sǽman; p. de; pp. ed
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To load Se cyning ge-sýmde gold and seolfor uppan olfendas the king loaded gold and silver upon camels, Homl. Th. i. 458, 23. Ða wǽron gesýmed mid feó and mid hrægle that were laden with money and raiment, Gen. 45, 23.

Linked entry: ge-sǽman

ge-steal

(n.)
Grammar
ge-steal, -steall, es;
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Ger. gistelli: Ger. gestell.]

édo

(n.)

a flock ⬩ grex

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a flock; grex Ge-eode [MS. ge-eáde] all suner vel édo in sǽ ăbiit tōtus grex in măre, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 8, 32

ge-niman

(v.)
Grammar
ge-niman, -nyman, -nioman; he -nimeþ, -nimþ; p. -nam, -nom, pl. -námon, -nómon; imp. -nim, pl. -nimaþ; subj. p. -náme, pl. -námen; pp. -numen
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He his folc genam swá fǽle sceáp abstŭlit sīcut oves pŏpŭlum suum, Ps. Th. 77, 52, 69. Ðe ic to swá myclum cyninge genom quod cum tanto rēge inii, Bd. 2, 12; S. 513, 25.

Linked entries: aweg-geniman ge-namne ge-nioman ge-nyman

ge-férlic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-férlic, adj.
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Social; gregalis, Germ. 399, 391

ge-rinnan

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L. 276. of material, to coagulate, condense (intrant. ), get mingled Gerunnen concretum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 105, 15, 34: concreta, i. commixta, conjuncta, coadunata, 136, 24. Gerunnenes refrigerati, Germ. 398, 143. <b>II a.

ge-heápod

(v.)
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Substitute: <b>ge-heápian</b>; p. ode To heap together, pile up: — Geheápodan coacervassent. Wrt.

ge-ortrúwian

(v.)
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Add: to despair of. with gen. Geseah hé ꝥ án leó genóm ꝥ cild . . . hé ðá wæs geortrúwod þæs cildes, Hml. S. 30, 178. with prep. Be Godes mildheortnesse geortrúwian de Dei misericordia desperare, R. Ben. I. 22, 11. <b>I a.

ge-dróf

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Germ. 399, 453. Add

ge-gladian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-gladian, <b>; I 4.</b>
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Gegladudne placatum, Germ. 394, 365. Add

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