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Wright's OE grammar
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Add: pp. ge-wǽced
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  • Gehuaeh (-wǽhþ?)

    adfligit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 36.

  • Gewǽce

    fatigat,

      147, 27.

  • Gewǽcte

    infecta,

      47, 70.

  • Gewéhtum

    fessis,

      Wülck. Gl. 254, 16.
of the effects on living creatures,
physical,
to weary, exhaust with labour, travel, &c.
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  • Ðá seó lætre tíd hí gangende gewǽhte

    cum eos tardior hora fatigaret,

      Gr. D. 129, 2.

  • Hé wæs swíðe gewǽced ǽgðer ge mid fæstene ge on þám langan geswince,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 769.

  • Gif wé lange standað, wé beóð gewǽhte,

      Hml. Th. i. 488, 35.
of the effect of disease, age, wounds, famine, &c.
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  • Hungre ic gewǽce

    fame conficiam,

      An. Ox. 2441.

  • Gif man on huntuþe rán mid fláne gewǽceþ,

      Lch. i. 166, 25.

  • Ic for yldum gewǽht eom, ꝥ ic delfan ne mæg,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 782.

  • Nis hǽlo on flǽsce míne. Gewǽht (

    afflatus

    ) ic eom,
      Ps. Spl. 37, 8.

  • Wið þæt hwá mid cyle gewǽht (-wéht,

    v. l.

    ) sý,
      Lch. i. 114, 23.

  • Mid miclum sárum gewǽced

    tanto dolore adfectus,

      Bd. 4, 11; Sch. 405, 14.

  • Ongan hé sworettan swá swá eallunga gewǽced, on þám oreðe belocen,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 234.

  • Hý synt mid untrumnyssum gewǽhte,

      Hml. A. 146, 57.

  • Wǽron hié mid meteliéste gewǽhte,

      Chr. 894; P. 295, 2.
of the effect of ill-treatment
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  • Hí eów tó deáðe gewǽcað

    morte vos adficient,

      Hml. Th. ii. 542, 17.

  • Sume hí þá bydelas mid teónan gewǽhton and ofslógon

    servos contumelia adfectos occiderunt,

    i.
      524, 22.

  • Ic ðé háte gewǽhtne on þǽre róde áfæstnian,

      590, 12.

  • Wé synd ealne dǽg tó deáþe gewǽhte

    morte afficimur tota die,

      R. Ben. 27, 9.
non-physical
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  • Ne ðú ðé ǽfre ne lǽt wlenca gewǽcan, Met. 5, 31, Mód mid horuwe gewǽht

    mens sorde saucia,

      Hy. S. 37, 12.

  • Wæs gewǽht

    afficitur (acri angore ),

      An. Ox. 4011.

  • Ne ðú beó gewǽht þonne hé ðé þreáð

    neque fatigeris dum ab eo argueris,

      Hml. Th. ii. 328, 22.

  • Þæt bearn ne wurdon gewǽhte ðurh wácmódnysse (

    that children should not get spoiled by the weakness of parents

    ) ... Cildra behófiað swíðlicere steóre,
      324, 26-34.

  • Gewǽcede

    defectos,

      Ps. Rdr. 291, 36.
of things
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  • Sóna hit ðone dropan gewǽceð

    it soon reduces the drop,

      Lch. i. 162, 8.

  • Gewǽht

    fessa, i. fatigata (fragilitas moribundae carnis), An. Ox. 1276: labefacta (severitas ),

    4790.

  • Mid gewǽhtum

    obliqua (invidia ),

    5350.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-weichen emollire, enervare, curvare, frangere.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wǽcan.” 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/50355.

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