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ge-openian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to open a door, gate, &c., so as to admit of passage
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  • Gatu heofonan hé geopnode (

    aperuit

    ),
      Ps. L. 77, 23.
  • Se preóst nolde undón þá duru mid cǽge, ac se bisceop hí geopenade mid his worde,

      Hml. S. 3, 485.
  • Geopena ongeán mé lífes geat,

      Hml. Th. i. 76, 3.
to open a box, &c., an enclosed space,
render passage possible into an enclosed place
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  • Ic geopnige mínne múþ,

      Ps. L. 77, 2.
  • Heofonan mid worde þú geopenast,

      Hy. S. 106, 3.
  • Hí geopenodon heora hordfatu,

      Hml. Th. i. 78, 27.
  • Geopenigende neorxnewange

    reserans paradysum,

      Hy. S. 83, 11.
  • Sié þára manna gehwám geopenad engla ríce,

      El. 1231.
  • Hé betýnde his eágan þe lǽs þá cwelleras gesáwon ꝥ his eágan geopenode wǽron,

      Bl. H. 231, 13. II a. figurative :--
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  • Þám bið wíte geopenad

    he will go into torment,

      An. 891.
to open, spread out
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  • Þú openast handa þíne,

      Ps. L. 144, 16.
to make an opening in, cut or
break into
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  • Hé mid spere his sídan geopenode,

      Hml. Th. ii. 260, 11.
  • Geopnadon

    patefacientes,

      Mk. L. 2, 4.
to open a way,
make clear a passage
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  • Hé him duru ontýneð, ingong geopenað,

      Gú. 966.
  • Geopenige úre sárnys ús infær sóðre gecyrrednysse,

      Hml. Th. ii. 124, 6.
  • Bið se torr þyrel, ingong geopenad,

      Jul. 403.
to uncover, disclose to view, shew. See B. I
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  • Þá geopenedan

    publicatam (protervorum insolentiam ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 87, 74.
to lay bare to the mind, disclose, reveal, declare, male known.
the object a noun or pronoun
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  • Heó onwríhð hire ǽwelm, þonne heó geopenaþ hiore ðeáwas (

    cum mores profitetur

    ),
      Bt. 20; F. 70, 25.
  • Heó þá mód þé geopenaþ ðínra getreówra freónda

    amicorum tibi fidelium mentes detexit,

      F. 72, 13.
  • Word geopenað ǽlces monnes geþanc and his þeáwas, ðeáh hí hwílum behelie,

      Prov. K. 58.
  • Hé þá word geopenade þe englas ne dorston,

      Hml. S. 15, 165.
  • Hé ꝥ (

    a plot

    ) þé geopenode,
      Hml. A. 98, 221.
  • Nys nán díhle þing þæt ne wurðe geopenod

    nihil est occultum quod non scietur, Mt. 10, 26. [Nán þing] oferwrigen ꝥ ne beó geopenad [nihil] opertum quod non reuelabitur,

      An. Ox. 61, 11.
the object a clause
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  • Hió him geopenaþ hú tiédre þǽs andweardan gesǽlþa sint,

      Bt. 20; F. 72, 3.
  • Drihten sylf geopenað ús þæt þæt sǽd is Godes word . . . þone sǽdere hé belǽfde ús tó sécenne,

      Hml. Th. ii. 90, 6.
  • Seó ætýwnes heofonlices wundres geopenade (-opnode, v. l.) hú árwyrþlíce hí wǽron tó onfónne miraculi caelestis ostensio, quam reuerenter eae suscipiendae essent, patefecit, Bd. 3, 11; Sch. 237, 4. VII a. to open one's heart,

    disclose

    one's thoughts, designs &c. :-- Hé his geðanc geopenode, and ofer eall clypode,
      Hml. S. 23, 320.
  • Þæt se man geþeó on þǽre fandunge, and his ingehýd beó geopenod, Scrd. 23, 2. VII b.

    to make known, declare, spread the knowledge of

    :-- Gewurðe þín willa geopenod geond ealle world,
      Hy. 7, 36.
to make clear, explain, expound
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  • God geopenude Abrahame hwæt hé mid þǽre sprǽce mǽnde,

      Gen. 18, 20.
  • Ús biscopum gedafenað ꝥ wé þá godcundan láre . . . eów preóstum geopenan on Engliscum gereorde, for ðám þe gé ealle ne cunnon ꝥ Læden understandan,

      Ll. Th. ii. 364, 9.
  • Wé willað nú mid scortre trahtnunge þás rǽdinge oferyrnan and geopenian, gif heó hwæt dígles on hyre hæbbende sý,

      Hml. Th. i. 388, 30: Angl. viii. 335, 35.
  • Fela wé habbað gesett ymbe þissum þingum, and gyt ús gelnstfullað þás þing tó geopenianne,

      312, 41.
to proclaim
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  • Sí þé wuldor and lof wíde geopenod geond ealle þeóda,

      Hy. 9, 1. B. intrans.
to become disclosed, come into sight
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  • Ic þé, weroda waldend, . . . biddan wille, þæt mé þæt goldhord, gásta scippend, geopenie (or = þú geopenie?

    and to be taken under

      A. VI),
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to give explanations about a subject
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  • Ymbe þises bissextus gefyllednysse wé willað rúmlícor iungum cnihtum geopenian,

      Angl. viii. 306, 15.
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