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ge-wilnian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Dele first passage, and add: in a bad sense, to covet
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  • Ic gewilnie

    glisco,

      An. Ox. 18 b, 39.
to desire an object (the source from which marked by
tó).
with acc. or uncertain
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  • Sé ðe biscephád gewilnað (

    desiderat

    ), gód weorc hé gewilnað,
      Past. 52, 25.
  • Gewilne expetit ( = gewilnode

    expetivit,

    v.
      Lk. 22, 31), Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 2: 30, 68.
  • Wyrte þe hé ǽr mid stale gewilnode (

    appetebat [anferre ]

    ),
      Gr. D. 25, 16.
  • Ðæs láriówdómes ðegnung bið untǽlwierðlíce gewilnad

    praedicationis officium nonnulli laudabiliter appetunt,

      Past. 11, 9.
  • Gewilnede gesinscipas

    obtata conubia,

      An. Ox. 4287.
with gen.
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  • Bilewite cild ne gewilnað wlitiges wífes,

      Hml. Th. i. 512, 13.
  • Manegra wíta hié gewildnodon wið ðan éce lífe

    multos scimus beatitudinis fructum suppliciis quaesisse,

      Bt. 11, 2; F. 36, 4.
  • Ne gewilna (

    concupisces

    ) þú þínes néhstan ierfes mid unrihte,
      Ll. Th. i. 44, 21.
with dat.
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  • Sé ðe biscepháde gewilnað,

      Past. 53, 8.
with clause
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  • Hé gewilnode tó Gode ꝥ hé hine ne léte lybban náne hwíle æfter his leófan fæder,

      Chr. 1038; P. 161, 31.
to desire to do.
with infin.
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  • Ðá fǽmnan þe gewilniað (-wuniað,

    v. l.

    ) onfón galdorcræftigan,
      Ll. Th. i. 52, 9.
  • Þá gewilniað heora sáwla sellan,

      56, 20.
with dat. infin.
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  • Þá wyrta þe hé ǽr mid stale gewilnode tó ætbrédanne (

    appetebat auferre

    ),
      Gr. D. 25, 16.
  • Hé ꝥ gefremede man gewilnade tó bedíglianne,

      Ap. Th. 2, 6.
  • Manega wítegan gewilnudon (gewilnadon, L.,

    cupierunt

    ) þá þing tó geseónne,
      Mt. 13, 17.
to desire to go to (
tó), lit. or fig.,
to a person
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  • Wé witon þæt ðú gewilnast tó ðám wuldorfullan Drihtne,

      Hml. Th. ii. 516, 22.
  • Þú gewilnast tó Críste,

      Hml. S. 31, 1338.
to a place, position, condition, &c.
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  • Þá þe hé (

    St. Martin) wæs twelfwintra hé gewilnode tó wéstene (cf. smeágende hú hé (St. Martin )

    on wéstene wunian mihte,
      Hml. Th. ii. 500, 2),
    and hé hit eác gefremode gif hé þá ylde hæfde, Hml. S. 31, 26.
  • Hé gewilnode

    anhelat (ad summum virginitatis fastigium ),

      An. Ox. 2, 230.
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  • ge-wilnian, v.