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the object a person.
to reconcile adversaries
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  • Lǽt inc geséman ǽr ðú ðín lác bringe

    vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo,

      Past. 349, 12.

  • Hié bǽdan Philippus þæt hé heora ládteów wǽre wið Focenses, and . . . þæt hé . . . oþþe hié gesémde, oþþe him gefultumade ꝥ hí hié oferwinnan mehten (vel differri bellum, vel auferri) . . . Hé him gehét ꝥ hé hié geséman wolde [

    pacem promisit),

      Ors. 3, 7; S. 114, 21-28.

  • Wearð ꝥ mǽste gewinn . . . hié mid nánum þinge ne mehton gesémede weorþan,

      2, 2 ; S. 64, 34.

  • Hí gesémede beón ne mihtan . . . Hí mid mycelon unsehte tócyrdon,

      Chr. 1094; P. 2 29, 7-12-
to end dispute between persons by giving judgement upon heir claims, to arbitrate between
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  • Wǽron twégen cyningas ymb ꝥ ríce winnende. . . þá sendan hié tó Philippuse and bǽdon þæt hé hié ymb þæt ríce gesémde cum Philippum duo reges de regni terminis ambigentes judicem praeoptavissent, Ors. 3, 7; S. 114, 18. lc inc geséman ne mæg

    I cannot judge between you,

      Bl. H. 181, 8.
  • Ús sceal ord and ecg geséman. By. 60.

  • Wé beóð ætforan Gode gesémde before God shall the case between us be decided, Hml. Th. ii. 338, I : Bl. H. 183, 13. (2 a) of legal decision :-- Se cyning bæd and hét ꝥ hí scioldon Wynflǽde and Leófwine swá rihtlíce geséman swá him ǽfre rihtlícost þúhte (

    the case between Wynflæd and Leofwine was to be settled with absolute justice),

      Cht. Th. 288, 30.
to settle the doubts of
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  • Mé fyrwet bræc . . . ǽr þon mé geunne éce dryhten þæt mé geséme snoterra mon. Sal. 251.
the object a thing, to settle a dispute,
make up a quarrel
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  • Þéh heora gewinn þá gesémed wǽre, Ors. l, 12 ; S. 52, 25. II a. of a legal settlement, to give judgement in a suit, make award in as arbitrator :-- Gif man óðerne tihte . . . gesécæn hiom sǽmend . . . siþþan sió sace gesémed sió an seofan nihtum se man þám óðrum riht gedó . . . gif hé þonne ꝥ nylle gelde þonne .c. búton áðe siþþan áne neaht ofer ꝥ gesém hié

    if a man bring a charge against another . . . let them get them an arbitrator . . . within seven days of the award being made it must be carried out. If the party concerned refuse to do this he must pay a hundred as fine, without the option of an oath; then one day after this payment the case may be settled,

      Ll. Th. i. 30, 17-32, 3.
    [The passage is somewhat obscure. Hié might be acc. f. sing, or pl.; in the translation just attempted it has been taken as the former, and as referring to sacu; so that the meaning of the latter part of the regulation is taken to be that a party to a suit, who failed to carry out the arbitrator's award, would be liable to a payment of a hundred, and only when this payment had been made would be able to get a legal settlement of the case.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-séman.” 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/49626.

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