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Add: I. to approach a person with
a material object
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  • Wiste genǽgdon módige mete þegnas (

    food was brought),

      Exod. 130.
with non-material object,
to address with words, El. 385 (v. Dict.),
to attack, assault with ill-feeling, & c.
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  • Ic (

    a sword)

    má wánan ne þearf þæt mé bearn wrǽce, gif mé gromra hwylc gúðe genǽgeð (gehnǽgeð? v. ge-hnǽgan),
      Rä. 31, 19.

  • Wé þec níða genǽgað,

      Gú. 201.

  • Hearde genearwod, níða genǽged,

      B. 1439. (b α) of
    the attacks of illness, trouble, &c. :-- Hú gewearð þé þus, fæder, ferð gebysgod, nearwe genǽged ?, Gú. 986.
Etymology
[In the last passage in Dict. for Cri. 1126 read Gú. 1126.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-nǽgan.” 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/48992.

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