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ge-gearcian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to make ready.
to prepare a thing for use
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  • Ic gegearcode míne gód,

      Hml. Th. i. 522, 6.

  • Þǽra hálgena síðfæt is gegearcod

    iter sanctorum preparata est,

      Hml. S. 2, 62: Hml. Th. i. 362, 12.
of ships,
to equip
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  • Ꝥ scip Swegen eorl hæfde him silfum ǽr gegearcod and gemetsod,

      Chr. 1052; P. 176, 12.
to prepare for doing or suffering
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  • Hí hí sylfe gegearcodon mid wíge him tógeánes, Hml. A. 104, 77. (3 a) where the purpose of preparation is given :-- Hé gearcað úrne gódan willan tó fultumigenne, and hé fylst ðám willan gegearcodne

    he prepares our good will to be helped, and he helps that will when it is prepared,

      Hml. Th. ii. 84, 15.
to furnish, provide, supply
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  • Hé þé líf gegearcað

    uitam tibi prestet,

      Hml. S. 24, 123.

  • Gegearcode

    prebuit,

      Germ. 400, 508.

  • Þæt seó sǽ seofon dagas drígne grund þám folce gegearcige, þæt hí his líchaman gesécan magon. Þæt belimpð tó lofe úres Hǽlendes, sé ðe his cýðere ðá árwurðan byrgene gegearcode,

      Hml. Th. i. 564, 23-28.

  • Gegearcod

    exhibita, praeparata,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 7.

  • Eallum þæslic wurðmenð sí gegearcod

    omnibus congruus honor exibeatur,

      R. Ben. I. 87, 15.

  • Þá cyrican þe hí him gegearcod hæfdon, hé hét hálgian,

      Chr. 995; P. 128, 37.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-gearcian.” 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/48101.

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