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ge-bedda

  • noun [ masculinefeminine ]
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ge-bedda, . . . an ; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§574;
Substitute: ge-bedda, an ; m. this is the usual form, but gebedde occurs in C. D. iii. 50, 3. Cf. ge-maca, [ ge-mæcca for gender], and add:
one who lies in bed with another, a bedfellow.
of a married woman
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  • Migdonia leng nolde cuman tó hire weres bedde . . . Hire wer bæd seó cwén móste cunnian gif heó mihte hire

    (Migdonia's) mód gebígan ꝥ heó (Migdonia ]

    his gebedda wǽre,
      Hml. S. 36, 303.
fig. in connexion with the grave
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  • Wyrmum tó mete and tó gebeddan weorðan. Wlfst. 240,

      22.
    þonne flǽsc onginneð hrúsan ceósan tó gebeddan, Rún. 29.
a consort, wife of a great man
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  • Leófríc eorl and his gebedda,

      C. D. iv. 72, 20.
  • Se cyning and his gebedda and heora sunu,

      Hml. Th. ii. 476, 4.
  • Abraham and his gebedda, i. 92, 21.
  • Godes ðegen Zacharias, his gebedda

    (uxor,

      Lk. 1. 5) Elizabeth, 352, 1.
  • Ðæs cáseres gebedda Libia, and his heáhgeréfan wíf Agrippina,

      374, 32.
  • Nicostratus mid his wífe . . . Tranquillinus and his gebedda,

      Hml. S. 5, 131.
  • Se þegn wæs wunigende bútan wífes neáwiste, for ðan þe his gebedda gefæren wæs of lífe,

      6, 132.
  • Mǽden swilcere gebyrde þe his

    (Ahasuerus)

    gebedda wǽre,
      Hml. A. 94, 74.
  • Se cásere and his manfulla gebedda,

      Hml. S. 31, 652.
  • Eádleofu his gebedde,

      C. D. iii. 50, 3.
  • Eádgár cyning þá his gebeddan betǽhte,

      Lch. iii. 440, 15.
  • Gif hé wið þæs cyninges gebeddan

    (conjuge)

    hǽmde,
      Ll. Th. ii. 188, 25.
  • Tó onfóanne gebede ðín

    accipere conjugem tuam, Mt.

      L. l, 20.
  • Gebed, 24.
  • Gebed ł wíf

    uxorem, p. 14, 16. þá cóm leóf Gode (Abraham )

    idesa lǽdan, swǽse gebeddan, and his suhtrian, wíf on willan,
      Gen. 1775.
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  • ge-bedda, n.