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ge-rísan

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Grammar
ge-rísan, to be fitting. [In line 11 2. gerise bet.]
Wright's OE grammar
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with noun subject
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  • þænne dream gerist. Men. 58.
  • Fǽmne ast hyre bordan geríseð,

      On. Ex. 64 : 67.
  • I a. with dat. of object

    Ðé gerist mára campdom. Hml. Th. i. 418, 8.

  • Dam aide ne gehrtseð

    (conuenil)

      Ssceapa, Lk. L. 5, 36.
with pronoun subject,
referring to preceding statement
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  • Wide is geweorðod, swá þæt wel gerist, haligra tid,

      Men. 120.
representing a following clause
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  • Wel ji gerás

    p

    heó wǽre eáðmód,
      Bl. H. 13, 16.
  • Rihte hit gerist bæt hine ealle riht-willende herian rectos decet collaudatio, Ps. Th. 32, II a. with indefinite hit as subject :-- Swá swá hit wel swá árwyrðum bisceope gerás

    iuxta uenerationem tanto pontifice dignam,

      Bd. 3, 17; Sch. 268, 23.
  • Swá hit us eallon gerise,

      Ll. Th. i. 238, 17.
with no subject expressed
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  • Hi hine weorþodan, swá cinige geríseþ,

      Bl. H. 69, 32.
  • Gá ꝥ land . . . swá gegódod swá heom bám gerísan mage,

      C. D. ir. 86, 15.
  • Ill a. where a clause follows the verb

    Suelcum ingeðonce gerist

    (congruens)

    ðæt hé . . . wið dá scire ne winne,
      Past. 61, lo.
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  • Wel þé geríseð þæt þú sié heáfod, Cri. 3. . III b. with infin. :-- Siled bodo ðǽm geríses bodage

    dat praecepta quibus debeant praedicare,

      Lk. p. 6, 14.
  • Gehriseð (giríseif,

      R. ) mé geonga, Lk. L. 13, 33 : 17, 25.
  • Ill bb. with acc. and infin.

    Ðás gerás geðrouia Críst

    haec oportuit pati Christum,

      Lk. L. R. 24, 26.
  • III o. with gerundial infin.

    Ðá ðe gehrísseð tó cuoeðanne

    quae oporteat dicere,

      Lk. L. 12, 12.
  • Geriseð tó wyrcanne,

      13, 14.
  • Gerás tó wyrcanne, n, 42.
Etymology
[O. Sax. gi-rísan: O. H. Ger. ge-rísan decere, convenire, congruere. "]
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v. un-gerísende.
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