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ge-libban

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
ge-libban, ge-lifian, ge-leofian; p. ge-lifde, ge-lifode, ge-leofode
To live.
to be alive
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  • Mið ðý gehérdon ꝥte gelifde and geséne wǽre, Mk. L. 16, 11.

    to pass life

    under specified conditions :-- Sume on hǽðenscipe gelifdon,
      Ll. Th. ii. 366, 13.

  • Gif swá biþ geleofad

    si sic vivitur,

      Ps. L. 185 a, 16.
to escape spiritual death
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  • Ðis dó ꝥte ðú gelifige,

      Lk. L. 10, 28.
trans.
to have as part of one's life, to experience
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  • Ne ondrǽd ðú ðé deáð tó swíðe; ne geleofað man náht miriges ðá hwíle ðe mon deáð ondrǽt

    life hath no mirth while death is feared,

      Prov. K. 16.
to get by living, to live to do
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  • Hé cyng beón sceolde, gif hé hit gelifode

    he should have been king, if he had lived to do it,

      Chr. 1093; P. 228, 11.

  • Fulne ende þínes lífes þú hæfst gelifd

    plenam etatis finem habes,

      Nar. 30, 11.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-lében to experience, live to see. Cf. Ger. er-leben.]
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v.  ge-leofian ge-lifian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-libban.” 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/48643.

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