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ge-fetian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to go in quest of and bring back.
the object a person
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  • Se cniht gefette ꝥ mǽden mid woruldlicum wurðmynte,

      Hml. S. 34, 21.

  • Amilcor wæs of Sicilium him tó fultume gefett

    accitum ex Sicilia Amilcarem,

      Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 20.

  • Gefetodne

    accitum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 4, 35.

  • Gefetodnae, gefetatnae, gefeotodne

    accetum.,

      Txts. 42, 105.

  • Gefetadne

    arceri (jubet Augustus vatem),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 34 ; 3, 78.

  • Wurdon gefætte ætforan þám déman þá crístenan,

      Hml. S. 2, 197.
the object a thing
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  • Hí ofer six míla him wæter on heora exlum gefetton,

      Hml. Th. i. 562, 4.
to go and get what one seeks,
get, obtain,
with concrete object
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  • Críst sitt on heofonum mid þám hálgum þe hé on ðisum lífe gefette,

      Hml. Th. i. 248, 24: ii. 368, 33.

  • On þisum geáre Ælfere gefette þes cyninges líchaman æt Wærhám, and geferode hine tó Scæftesbyrig,

      Chr. 980; P. 123, 37.

  • Hí gefetedon his sáule and mid him genámon and hwurfon tó þám heofonlican ríce

    adstimta secum anima ejus, ad caelestia regna redierunt,

      Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 364, 19.

  • Þý lǽs hys cnihtas cómon and þone líchaman gefetton

    ne forte veniant disciptili ejus et furentur eum

    (Mt.
      27, 64), Hml. As. 183, 61.
with abstract object,
a noun
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  • Æt þǽra byrgenan . . . manege gefettan líchamlice hǽle,

      Wlfst. 4, ll.
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  • Blinde gefettan þæt hý lócedan bráde,

      Wlfst. 5, l.
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v. ge-feccan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-fetian.” 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/47951.

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