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ge-namian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to give a name to an object,
call so and so (proper or common noun)
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  • Ætforan dám cásere, Aurelianus genamod,

      Hml. Th. ii. 308, 3.

  • Wé habbað áne gástlice módor, seó is

    ecclesia

    genamod,
      Wlfst. 67, 14.

  • Ðæt land is on þreó genamod, ðæt is Hengest-esíg and Seofocanwyrð and Wihthám

    the land is divided into three parts named respectively

    . . . ,
      C. D. v. 401, 25.

  • Fæder and Sunu and Hálig Gást ne magon beón tógædere genamode (

    cannot be included under one name),

      Hml. Th. ii. 282, 20: 606, 23.

  • Biscop Grécisc is noma woerces . . . ofer, insceáwre; for ðon biscopas oferinsceawras genomado biðon aepiscopus Graecum est nomen operis . . . epis super, scopus

    inspector; ideo episcopi superinspectores nominantur,

      Rtl. 194, 25.

  • I a. to call by a name :-- Ðú sunu ðínne tuoelf nomun genomadest

    Filium tuum .xii. nominibus nominasti,

      Rtl. 145, 12.
where a descriptive epithet is applied to an object, to speak of as
(tó)
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  • Eal seó gelaðung ðe stent on mǽdenum and on cnapum, on ceorlum and on wífum, eal heó is genamod tó ánum mǽdene, swá swá Paulus cwæð . . . 'uirginem castam exhibere, ' Hml. Th. ii. 566, 12.

  • III.

    to mention by name, mention

    :-- Hit is gecweden þæt se ealda Israhel ofer-wann seofon ðeóda, eahteoðe wæs Pharao, ac hí oferwunnon micle má þonne ðǽr genamode wǽron, Hml. Th. ii. 218, 26.

  • IV.

    to assign

    something to a person :-- Ðæs hé eftleán wile ealles genomian,
      Cri. lloi. Hit is gewunelic , on
    hálgum gewritum þæt gehwám bið fæder genamod be his efenlǽcunge: gif hé geeuenlǽcð Gode . . . , hé bið Godes bearn gecíged, Hml. Th. ii. 228, 2.

  • V.

    to nominate, appoint

    a person to a particular work :-- Há his cempan tó ðám slege genamode,
      Hml. Th. i. 88, 3.
  • Þǽra cempena suna wurdon genamode tó þám ylcan campdóme þe heora fæderas on wǽron. Hml. S. 31, 32.

  • Hé hit mid gewitnysse bohte þára manna þe tó gewitnysse genamode synt,

      Ll. Th. i. 276, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-namian.” 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/48998.

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