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ge-þoftian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Substitute: To make a league or alliance with, league, ally oneself.
to league together, with reflex. dat. or acc.
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  • Seleucus and Demetrias hí (him, Bos. 75, 14) tógædere geþoftedan

    Seleucus Demetrio jungitur,

      Ors. 3, 11; S. 150, 29.
to league with (
wiꝥ) a person
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  • Cassander geþoftade wið Ptholomeus and wið Lisimachus and wið Seleucus, and hié ealle winnende wǽron wið Antigones Ptolomaeus et Cassander, inita cum Lysimacho et Seleuco societate, bellum instruunt, S. 148, 34. (2 a) with reflex. dat. :-- Geoweorþa geþoftade him wiþ Bohan

    Iugurtha societatem cum Boccho fecit,

      5, 7; S. 230, 8.
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