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Add: To prevent free movement or action.
to restrict, restrain, confine
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  • Ðonne monn ðæt mód gehæft

    cum cogitatio per custodiam restringitur,

      Past. 273, 17.

  • Hié nellað hié gehæftan and gepyndan hiora mód, swelce mon deópne pool gewerige, ac hé lǽt his mód tóflówan . . . and ne gehæft hit ná mid ðám gesuincium gódra weorca

    se ad superiora stringendo non dirigit, neglectam se expandit, et studiorum sublimium vigore non constringitur,

      283, 13-16.

  • Sume weriað wísdómes streám, welerum gehæftað, ðæt hé út ne tóflóweð,

      469, 3.
to bind, fetter
with material bonds
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  • Se geonga . . . gehæfted (cf. fetorwrásnum fæst, 1109),

      An. 1129.
with non-material bonds
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  • Sé þe gehæft sié mid ðǽre unnyttan lufe þisse middangeardes

    capti, quos ligat improbis catenis terrenis habitans libido menteis,

      Bt. 34, 8; F. 144, 24.

  • Gehefted,

      Met. 21, 5.

  • Sefa . . . unrótnesse gerǽped, hearde gehæfted,

      25, 49.

  • Hé ealle gesceafta hæfð geheaþorade and gehæfte mid his unanbindendlicum racentum

    stringat ligans irresoluto singula nexu,

      Bt. 25; F. 88, 5.
to fasten one thing to another
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  • Sihhemes mód wæs gehæft tó Dinan

    conglutinata est anima ejus cum ea,

      Past. 415, 25.
to seize, arrest, capture.
the subject a person
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  • Swá hraðe swá hí becumað tó ðyssere byrig gehæftað hí,

      Hml. Th. ii. 494, 12.

  • Se déma hét gehæftan Crisantum and Darian,

      Hml. S. 35, 136.

  • Wæs sum wyln gehæft tó swinglum,

      21, 166.
the subject a (non-material) thing
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  • Gehæfton mé unrihtwísnyssa míne

    comprehenderunt me iniquitates meae,

      Ps. L. 39, 13.

  • Geheft

    captus (propriis sermonibus ),

      Kent. Gl. 123.

  • Meteleás . . . hungre gehæfted,

      El. 613.

  • Hí mǽndon meteleáste, hungre gehæfte,

      An. 1160.
to take captive, make prisoner
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  • Seó ungeðwǽrnes þá mægnu syrwde and gehæfte

    discordia virtutibus insidiatur et capitur,

      Prud. 78 a.

  • Wæs seó burhwaru mǽst ofslegen and gehæft

      , Chr. 980; P. 124, 8.

  • Ic geseó óðre ǽ . . . wiþfeohtende þǽre ǽ mínes módes and gehæftedne (

    captiuum) mé is lǽdende. Hú gif hé gehæfted (captiuus )

    wæs,
      Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 98, 6-11.

  • Gehæftum heora feóndum

    captis hostibus,

      5, 12; Sch. 620, 7.

  • Hí weorþaþ gerǽpte mid þǽre unrótnesse and swá gehæfte

    moeror captos fatigat,

      Bt. 37, 1; F. 186, 22.
to put into the power of another, bring into bondage, enslave.
lit.
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  • Genam se sciphláford mé neádinga . . . and hé mé gehæfte on his éðle,

      Hml. S. 30, 358.
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  • Ðý lǽs hé sié gehæft mid ðám úterran

    ne exterioribus deditus,

      Past. 127, 14.

  • Gehæft

    mancipatus,

      An. Ox. 1164: 2352: 779.
to confine to a place or locality,
imprison
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  • Seó stów þe þú nú on gehæft eart . . ., heó is þám monnum éþel þe þǽr on geborene wǽran,

      Bt. 11, 1; F. 32, 27.

  • Loce gehæft

    clustello continetur,

      An. Ox. 5397.

  • Gehæftad wæs diwl in helle

    dampnatus est diabolus in infernum,

      Rtl. 197, 25.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hæftan.” 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/48189.

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