Ge-offrian

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

ge-offrian

Add: I. to sacrifice, immolate:--Offrunga þǽre ealdan ǽwe wé ná ne geoffriaþ (immolamus), An. Ox. 40, 20. Hé funde him ánne ram Gode tó geoffrigenne, Prud. 1 b. Eástrun úre geoffrud (immolatus) is, An. Ox. 40, 30. II. to devote to the service of a divinity. (1) the object a thing:--Hé wurðlic lác geoffrode tó úres Drihtenes byrgene, ꝥ wæs án gylden calic, Chr. 1058; P. 189, 19. Hé geoffrode his lác þám almihtigan Gode, Hml. S. 25, 794. (2) the object a person:--Anna geoffrode Gode Samuhel, Hml. A. 34, 260. Gif hwylc ríce mon his bearn Gode on mynstre geoffrian wile, R. Ben. 103, 11. ge-offrian