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ge-beódan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-beódan, p. -beád, pl. -budon; pp. -boden [ge-, beódan to command] .
Wright's OE grammar
§651;
to command, order, summon; jŭbēre, mandāre
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  • Hét gebeódan byre Wihstánes hæleða monegum boldágendra, ðæt hie bǽlwudu feorran feredon

    Wihstan's son bade command many house-owning men, that they should convey pile-wood from afar,

    • Beo. Th. 6211
    • ;
    • B. 3110
    • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 551
    • ;
    • El. 276
    • .
to announce, proclaim; annuntiāre
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  • Hit beó seofon nihtum geboden ǽr

    let it be announced seven days before,

    • L. Ath. i. 20; Th. i. 208, 27
    • :
    • Cd. 183; Th. 229, 27
    • ;
    • Dan. 223
    • .
to offer, propose, give, grant; offerre, præbēre
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  • Hiera se æðeling gehwelcum feoh and feorh gebeád

    to each of them the noble offered money and life,

    • Chr. 755; Erl. 50, 5, 15
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  • Gebudon him Perse ðæt hí hæfdon iii winter sibbe wið hí

    the Persians proposed that they should have peace with them for three years,

    • Ors. 3, 1; Bos. 52, 27
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. gibiodan
:
O. H. Ger. ga-biutan, -piotan
:
Ger. gebieten
.]
Linked entries
v.  ge-beád ge-boden ge-budon.
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