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ge-þicgan

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ge-þicgan, [The strong and weak forms may be taken under one head.]
Add: to take and keep as one's own, receive
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  • Gyf hine mǽte ꝥ hé hebbe gyldene beág, ꝥ byð ꝥ hé geþihð heálicne ealdordóm,

      Lch. iii. 170, 23.

  • Hé landriht geþah

    he became entitled to the same rights as a native of the country in which he had settled, became naturalized,

      Exod. 354.
to take food
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  • Lima wyrm friteð ... and þá wist geþygeð,

      Reim. 76.

  • Þá blǽda ... þe ic (Adam) þé on teónan geþah

    the fruit that in contempt of thee I ate,

      Gen. 885.

  • Þeós wyrt fremað gecnucud and on wíne geþiged,

      Lch. i. 210, 22: 282, 6.

  • For mete geþiged

    taken as food,

      300, 11.
  • Se geþigeda mete, ii. 186, 21.

  • Fornam Crístes godcundlice miht ðone geðigedan mete,

      Hml. Th. i. 296, 29.

  • Hý tó mete geþigede ðone líchaman gestrangiað,

      Lch. i. 320, 19.

  • Fram mettum mid gemete geþigdum, Lch. ii. 220, 26. II a.

    to take and drink from a cup :-- Cwén ful gesealde éðelwearde ... Hé on lust geþeah symbel and seleful (he ate and drank ),

      B. 618.
  • Cf. ge-þeón to take.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þicgan.” 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/50100.

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