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ge-sweotulian

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to shew a material object to a person
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  • Ic ne mæg mé þé geswutelian . . . for þon ic eom wífhádes mann and wǽfelsum bereáfod,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 205.
to manifest, make known, reveal.
the object a person
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  • Ic geswutelige

    (manifestabo)

    him mé sylfne . . . þú wylt þé sylfne geswuteligan us,
      Jn. 14, 21, 22.

  • On þysum dæge Críst wæs geswutelod þám þrým cyningum . . . hé wearð on þysum dæge middangearde geswutelod,

      Hml. Th. i. 104, 19-23.
the object a thing
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  • Hié gereccað ðis andwearde líf fleónde and ðæt tówearde gesueotoligeað (-sweotuliað,

    v. l.) dum fugitiva esse praesentia indicant, quae sunt futura manifestant,

      Past. 91, 7.

  • Se Hǽlend geswutelode him (St. John) þá tóweardan onwrigenysse, Hml. Th. i. 58, 33. (2 a) where concealment is desired, to discover, make evident :--

    Wé

    cwǽdon be þám mannum þe mánsworan wǽran, gif ꝥ geswutelod wǽre,
      Ll. Th. i. 160, 20.

  • Fácn geswuteled

    strofam pro*-*palatam,

      An. Ox. 3653.
to shew, prove, demonstrate by action
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  • Ic gesweotelige ł ic geséde þé God þín ic eam

    testificabor tibi Deus tuus ego sum,

      Ps. L. 49, 7.

  • Abraham geswutelode mid þǽre dǽde ꝥ man ne sceal fandian Godes

    ostenditur in isto ejus facto quod homo non debet tenare are Dominum,

      Angl. vii. 42, 404. ꝥ wé
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  • Oferfundennessum geswutelian

    experimentis comprobasse,

      An. Ox. 544.
to make clear what is obscure, what is imperfectly understood,
to explain
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  • Gesutulað

    explicabit,

      Germ. 392, 23.

  • Ge-swuteliaþ

    propalabunt (si vestra solertia plenius animaduerti (undergytene) maluerit, collationes . . . propalabunt ),

      An. Ox. 912.

  • Hé geswutelede

    explanat (arborem congrua interpretations conjectura),

    1562.

  • Þæt ic geswu[telige]

    tit pandam,

    5059.

  • Geswitliende

    explanans,

      11, 59.

  • Wearð micel wundor on heofonum gesewen, swelce eal se hefon birnende wǽre. þæt tácen wearð on Rómánum swíþe gesweotolad mid þǽm miclan wólbryne monncwealmes

    Romae . . .gravis pestilentia . . . in*-*conduit, ut meríto praecedente prodigio coelum ardere visum sit, quando caput gentium tanto morborum igne flagravit,

      Ors. 2, 6; S. 86, 24.
to shew by signs, figuratively, symbolically,
indicate, signify. Cf. ge-sweotulung;
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  • Gamena angin ealderdóm geswutelaþ (

    cum pueriles) ludorum gesticulatio (pontificalem futuri praesulis) auctoritatem portenderit,

      An. Ox. 2874.

  • Mid þissum wordum se wítega gesweotulað

    (ostendit) ꝥ . . . ,

      R. Ben. 21, 13.

  • Seó godcundlice wracu hine mid menigfealdre yrmðe fordyde, and eác geswutelode on hwilcum súslum hé móste écelíce cwylmian,

      Hml. Th. i. 86, 2.

  • Ðæt hé ge*-*swutolade mid þám deádum fellum ꝥ hi wǽron deádlice

    ut eos mortales fuisse insinuarel,

      Angl. vii. 30, 284.

  • Geswutelian

    designasse (per allegoriam Hiericho typum mundi designasse ),

      An. Ox. 5137.

  • Ge-swuteliende signantem, i. demonstrantem (statuam regnorum saecula signantem), 1545. þurh þá sylfan offrungá Crístes þrowunge geswyte-lude wé oncnáwaþ

    per eadem sacrificia Xpi passionem insinuatam cognoscimus,

      40, 23.

  • Hér is geswutelod úre sylfra forwyrd, tóweard getácnod,

      Jud. 285.
to make a clear statement of, declare
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  • þám crédan sceal ǽlc crísten man geswutelian rihtne geleáfan,

      Ll. Th. i. 372, 26.

  • Geswu[teliende] heófun[ge]

    depromens querimoniam,

      An. Ox. 3365.
  • Hér is geswutelod on þisum gewrite hú Eádgár cyngc wæs smeágende hwæt tó bóte mihte. Ll. Th. i. 270, 8.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sweotulian.” 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/49909.

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