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ge-fremian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-fremian, ge-fremman.
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intrans.
To get good, profit
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  • Náht ne gefremaþ feónd on him

    nihil proficiet inimicus in eo,

      Ps. L. 88, 23.
trans.
to advance, further, promote
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  • Gefremið, gifraemith, gifremit

    provehit,

      Txts. 89, 1629.

  • Hine God ofer ealle men forð gefremede,

      B. 1718.

  • Gifremid, -fraemid

    provecta,

      Txts. 84, 759.

  • Gefremed,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 39.
to effect, accomplish, commit a crime
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  • Ic þonne gefremme þæs monnes neádþearf-nesse,

      Shrn. 77, 8.

  • Eall þú gefremest

    tu perfecisti eam,

      Ps. Th. 67, 10.

  • Gefremeþ

    committat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 37 : efficit, i. perficit,

      142, 58.

  • Hí gylt gefremmað,

      Ps. C. 14.

  • Gefremode transegit (anachareseos vitam), An. Ox. 2518. þæt gefremede Diulius þæt ꝥ angin wearð tídlíce þurhtogen

    quod Diulius celeriter inplevit,

      Ors. 4, 6; S. 172, 2.

  • Gefreme

    perfice,

      Ps. Srt. 16, 5.

  • Gefrem

    exerce,

      Germ. 401, 65.

  • Hé wolde his gebeót mid weorcum gefremman,

      Hml. S. 25, 621: Crä 62.

  • Hwæt sélest wǽre tó gefremmanne,

      B. 174.

  • Gefremed commissum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 52 :

    expedita,

      145, 38.

  • Ðá hwíle þe hit biþ on his módé, ǽr þám þe hit gefremed weorþe,

      Bt. 39, 5; F. 218, 23.

  • Wearð seó menniscnys þurh þone micclan willan gefremmed,

      Hml. Th. i. 196, 25.

  • Of gefremedre genihtsumnysse

    de congesta (virtutum) copia.

      An. Ox. 3344.

  • Þá gefremedon

    commissa,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 37.
  • (2 a) as a verb of incomplete predication

    Ús þis se æðeling ýðre gefremede,

      Cri. 627.

  • Þæt hê crísten wǽre gefremed

    ut Christianus efficeretur,

      Bd. l, 4; Sch. 16, 19.
  • ge-fremed
    perfect

    Ic wille beón gefremed in litlum weorce,

      Shrn. 35, 20.
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v. ǽr-gefremed, riht-gefremed, un-gefremed.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-fremian.” 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/48020.

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