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to choose, select
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  • Ðá ðe woruldmonnum ðynceað dysige, ðá geciésð (-císt,

    v.l. elegit

    )
      Dryhten, Past. 203, 23.

  • Ofer ealle óþre ic þá stówe geceás,

      Bl. H. 201, 7.

  • Geceás hé him þone deáþ, ꝥ him mon ofléte blódes on þám earme,

      Bt. 29, 2; F. 104, 22.
  • Geceós dé nú fultum. Hml. S. 25, 399.

  • Healde gehwá mid riht his ǽwe ... búton ꝥ gewurðe ꝥ hí búta geceósan ... hí getwǽman, Ll. Th. ii. 300, 27. I a.

    to choose for tht service of a person (dat.) :-- Þá twelf apostolas þám écean Gode gecorene wǽron (Deo electi fuerant ),

      Ll. Lbmn. 413, 13.

  • Þá þe Gode gecorene wǽron sóna swá hý geborene wǽron,

      Wlfst. 196, 10. ¶ geceósan tó
to choose king, bishop, &c.,
elect
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  • Ic þé gefyrþrede mid mínum lárum tó þon ꝥ þé mon tó dómere geceás,

      Bt. 8; F. 24, 30: Chr. 1041; P. 163, 10.

  • Hine gecés tó fæder and tó hláforde Scotta cyning,

      924; P. 104, 18: 921; P. 103, 19.

  • Se abb forðgefaren wæs; þá geceás hé Æðelsige munuc þǽrtó,

      1061; P. 190, 4.

  • Se flota eall gecuron Cnut tó cyninge,

      1014; P. 144, 28.

  • Tó bisceope gecoren

    in praesulatum electus,

      Bd. 2, 18; Sch. 182, 3: Chr. 830; P. 62, 6.

  • Heó wæs gecoren tó méder hire Scyppende,

      Bl. H. 13, 14.

  • Gewitnes sý geset tó ǽlcere byrig. Tó ǽlcere byrig .xxxiii. sýn gecorene tó gewitnesse,

      Ll. Th. i. 274, 9.
to elect to an office
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  • Þá sylfan him práfostscíre betǽhtan þe þæne abbod tó abbodháde gecuran (-cor-,

    v.l.) (ab eis qui abbatem ordinant ),

      R. Ben. 124, 17.
to accept.
to accept after deliberation or examination, approve a law, regulation, &c.,
decide,
of those who make a law
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  • Þis syndon þá dómas ðe Ælfréd cyncg geceás (cf. þá ðe mé ryhteste ðúhton, ic þá héron gegaderode, and þá óðre forlét,

      46, 22), Ll. Lbmn. 17, 2.

  • Ðis syndon þá dómas þe Ælfréd cyncg and Gúðrum cyncg gecuran,

      Ll. Th. i. 166, 5.

  • Gecuran and gecwǽdon,

      7; 314, 3.

  • Ðis is seó gerǽdnes þe Engla cyng and ... witan gecuran and gerǽddan,

      304, 4.

  • Swá góde laga swá hý betste geceósen,

      276, 18.

  • Gebéte þæt swá scíre witan geceósan,

      Wlfst. 172, 4.

  • Ic hæbbe gecoren and míne witan hwæt seó steór beón mæge,

      Ll. Th. i. 276, 30.

  • Sce Eádweardes mæssedæg witan habbað gecoren ꝥ man freólsian sceal on .xv. kal. Aprilis,

      308, 20.

  • Se cyng and his witan habbað gecoren and gecweden ꝥ ...,

      342, 6.
of those subject to a law
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  • Eádgáres lage þe ealle men habbað gecoren and tó gesworen,

      Cht. E. 231, 4.

  • Wille ic ꝥ symble mid eów gehealden sý þe gé tó friðes bóte gecoren hæfdon,

      Ll. Th. i. 278, 2.
to accept a condition
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  • Hé eall ꝥ lǽste ꝥ uncer formǽl wæs þá ic tó him gebeáh and his wilian geceás (

    became his vassal

    ),
      Ll. Th. i. 178, 9.

  • Wið þám þe heó his (the suitor's) willan geceóse

    if she accept him,

      254, 12.

  • Gif heó binnan geáres fæce wer geceóse

    if she decide to marry within the year,

      416, 8.
to try (?)
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  • On .xxii. and .xxiii. nihta seó mǽtincg bið gecornes and geflitnes and eall costunge full; ne bið ꝥ ná gód swefen (

    the dream is full of trial and strife

    ),
      Lch. iii. 156, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-ceósan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/47438.

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