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in respect to age,
advanced, mature
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  • Geþungen yld and swýðe eald yld ... hærfest and geþungen yld geférlǽcað, and winter and yld áteoriað,

      Angl. viii. 299, 25-27.

  • Swylce hit cild wǽre ... swylce hé medemre ylde man wǽre, and óðre hwíle swylce hé eald geþungen man wǽre,

      Wlfst. 99, 15.

  • Cildhád gewít tó cnihtháde, and cnihthád tó geðungenum wæstme,

      Hml. Th. i. 490, 3.

  • Þysum cildgeongum cynincge ... his foregengan þe geþungene wǽron on yld,

      Lch. iii. 436, 10.

  • Wé myngiað geþungene and iunge,

      Angl. viii. 308, 5.
deserving; emeritus
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  • Geþungen

    emeritus, i. veteranus miles, prefectus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 143, 28.

  • Geþungenan cempan

    emeritos (i. eximios) milites,

      An. Ox. 892.
eminent, distinguished.
by rank
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  • Hé ealdordóm onféhd ... geþungen on þeóde,

      Ph. 160.

  • On ealdormonnes húse oððe on óðres geþungenes witan,

      Ll. Th. i. 106, 6.

  • Biddende his þingunge tó ánum geþungenum ealdormen,

      Hml. S. 3, 171.

  • Biscepa and óðerra geþungenra witena,

      Ll. Th. i. 58, 5.

  • Ercebiscop mid manegum óðrum geðungenum witum,

      Hml. Th. ii. 148, 3.

  • Be abbodum and óðrum geðungenum,

      R. Ben. 105, 12.

  • Ne mæg se man módigan on geðincðum, for ðan þe fela synd geþungenran,

      Hml. S. 16, 372.
by good qualities,
excellent
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  • Þú eart beforan Drihtne geþungen, Hml. S. 23 b, 236 note. Þǽr (

    in heaven

    ) is geþungen þegnweorud,
      Cri. 751.

  • Geþungene (

    eminent for scholarship

    ) preóstas,
      Angl. viii. 305, 8.

  • Æfter geðungenra láreówa trahtnungum,

      Hml. Th. ii. 2, 8: Hml. S. 3, 151.

  • Ꝥ hí beón þe geþungenran on þǽre fandunge,

      Angl. vii. 52, 502. (2 a) of things :-- Ic
    hæbbe þé oferþogen on geþungenre láre, Hml. S. 3, 209.
developed so as to be fit for, fitted
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  • Þá þe tó ciriclicum háde geþungene wǽron

    qui ecclesiasticum gradum apte subirent,

      Bd. 4, 23; Sch. 469, 1.
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v. heáh-geþungen, un-geþungen.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-þungen.” 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/50167.

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