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be-geótan

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Dele first passage, and add:
to cover with a fluid,
anoint, besprinkle, drench
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  • Se wítega begeát his heáfod mid ele,

      Hml. S. 18, 319.
  • Hí beguton hine ealne mid ealdum miggan,

      35, 153.
  • Begeót ðæne andwlatan ðǽr mid,

      Lch. i. 200, 9: 272, 5.
  • Hé hét hine begeótan mid weallende leáde

    he ordered boiling lead to be poured upon him,

      Shrn. 83, 16: 154, 3.
  • Hé wearð begoten mid fantwætere,

      Hml. Th. ii. 346, 24.
  • Ic wæs mid blóde begoten of ðæs guman sídan

    I was drenched with blood from the man's side,

      Kr. 49.
  • Þaacute; stánas wǽron mid his blóde begotene, Hml. S. 15, 55. I a.

    to cover

    with molten metal :-- Hí stánas synd, þá þe þú godas gecígst, begotene mid leáde,
      Hml. S. 34, 336.
to cover with,
bestrew with
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  • Heó begeát þá hand mid deórwyrðum wyrtum and bewand on godwebbe,

      Shrn. 59, 34.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. pi-giozan perfundere, proluere, infundere.]
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