;p. -beád; pp. -boden; v. a. [a, beódan to order] To announce, relate, declare, offer, command; referre, nuntiare, annuntiare,edicere, offerre, jubere :-- Ðæt he wolde ðæt ǽrende abeódan that he would declare the errand, Ors. 4, 6; Bos. 86, 20: Cd. 91; Th. 115 ,14 ; Gen. 1919: 200; Th. 248, 9; Dan. 510.
Cite the scanned version of the original dicionary like this:
Bosworth, Joseph. "a-beódan." An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth. Ed. Thomas Northcote Toller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. 2.
.Add: (1) to announce, declare a message :-- Hé word ábeád he delivered the words of his message, B. 390. Ðæt hé hyre ǽrende ábude ðám bisceope ðysum wordum, Hml. S. 2, 68. Ðæt ic wiþ ðé sceolde ǽrendsprǽce ábeódan, Räi. 61, 16. Áboden bið praedicabitur, Lk. R. 12, 3: 24, 47. (l a) where the message is given by a clause :-- Hé ábeád þæt ǽgðer ðára folca óþrum ágeáfe ealle ðá men ðe hié gehergead hæfden, Ors. 4, 6; S. 178, 12. (2) to announce what is coming :-- Heáhengel hǽlo ábeád Marian, ðæt heó Meotod sceolde cennan, Men. 50: An. 96.