Ge-stillan

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ge-stillan

Add: A. intrans. To be or become still, cease from :-- Ic gestille itel áblinne cessam, desistam, cessavero, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 4. I. of persons or things. (l) not to be moving :-- Eorðe cwfcede and gestilde (quievii), Ps. Srt. Vos. 75, 9. Hi náuþer ne gestillan ne móton ne eác swíþor styrian, Bt. 21; F. 74, 7. (2) not to be active :-- Swá styrigende is seó sáwul j> heó furðon on slǽpe ne gestylþ, Hml. S. l, 132. ZI. with respect to sound, to be silent, not to sound :-- Ne gestilde nǽfre stefen cearciendes wǽnes. Lch. iii. 430, 33. III. of violent action, pain, passion, &c. , to stop, subside, be allayed, be restrained: -- Syððan gestilde se flód and gecyrde fram þám cyriclande se a terris ecclesiae fiuminis aqua compescuit, Gr. D. 194, 3 : An. 532. Eall hellwara witu gestildon þá hwíle ðe hé hearpode, Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, 4. B. trans. I. to cause to be still, stop :-- Gestillende conpescens, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 47. (l) to prevent motion :-- Ðára unstillena gesceafta styring ne mæg ná UNCERTAIN weorþan gestilled. Bt. 21; F. 74, 4. (2) to stop action :-- Hé ðá ealdan onsægednyssa ealle gestilde, Hml. Th. ii. 210, 15. Hi woldon þá wíta gestillan, Hml. S. 5, 39. Þæt gewinn wearð sume hwíle gestilled, Ors. 3, 5 ; S. 106, 5. (3) to stop an agent, restrain from doing something, (a) with acc. :-- Menn woldon sceáwian . . . ac God hi gestilde, Hml. S. 32, 243. For þí . . . þæt he us fram middangeardes lufe gestilde, Hml. Th. i. 608, ii. Hé nǽfre byþ gestilled fram unrihtwlsra wrace ab iniquorum ultione. non sedatur, Gf- D- 335. 15 PS ne beo gestild ne compescaris. Ps. L. 82, 2. Gestilled, Sal. 117. Ne magon þá nnstillan woruldgesceafta weorþan gestilde, Met. Ii, 19. ' (b) with rfat. :-- Godes engel gestillde ðǽm horsum. Shrn. 72, 3. II. in reference to sound, to silence, (l) to prevent a sound :-- Hi willað gestillan his stemne. Hml. Th. i. 156, 17. (2) to silence a person :-- JJæt folc hine wolde gestyllan. Hé hrymde ðæs ðe swiðor, Hml. Th. i. 156, 19. III. to allay, mitigate :-- Gestilde miligaret, Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 51. (l) to assuage, abate heat :-- Gestilde sedans (torridacum gelidis sedans incendia flabris, Aid. 146, 36), Wrt. Voc. ii. 90, 32. (2) to allay anger, passion, &c. :-- Gestildes eorre ðín mitigasti iram tuam, Ps. Srt. 84, 4. Hiora gitsunge gestillan, Past. 341, 17. Ǽghwylc mennisc leahter on his cennendum gestilled wæs, Bl. H. 163, 16. (3) to calm excited persons :-- Se eorl sylf earfoðlíce gestylde -& pound; folc, Chr. 1052 ; P. 180, 10. [O. Sax. gi-stillian to still a tempest: O.H.Ger. ge-stillen sedare, compescere, mitigare. ge-stillan