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ge-manian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Dele first passage, and add:
to bring to mind what ought to be done,
urge a person to do something
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  • Sticelse ábryrdnesse gemanod ł getiht

    stimulo conpunctionis instigatus, i. praemonitus.

      An. Ox. 602.

  • Gemanad

    compulsa,

    4366.
to bring to mind what should not be forgotten,
remind, admonish
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  • Þonne hié ꝥ eall gemunan and þurh ꝥ leóht gemanode beóþ,

      Bl. H. 129, 21, 8.
  • Ælfwine cwæð . . . 'Gemunað þá mǽla . . . 'Offa gemǽlde . . . 'Hwæt ! Þú Ælfwine hafast ealle gemanode þegenas tó þearfe,' By. 231.
to advise, instruct
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  • Hiú gemonade from móder hire cweð

    illa, praemonita a matre sua, inquit,

      Mt. R. 14, 8.
to demand of a person (acc.) what is due
(gen.)
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  • Ne þurfon wé ná þæs wénan, þæt úre Drihten ús nelle þára leána gemanian, þe hé ús hér on eorðan forgyfen hafað, Wlfst. 148, 16: 261, 18. IV a. to make demand for a debt,

    to dun

    :-- Sum hafenleás man sceolde ágyldan healf pund ánum men and wæs oft gemanod for ðǽre lǽne,
      Hml. Th. ii. 176, 35.
  • (O. Sax. gi-manón : O. H. Ger. ge-manón memorare, admonere, commonere.)
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-manian.” 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/48833.

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