Be-gán

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be-gán

Dele passage Deut. 21, 20, and add; I. of movement, (I) trans, (a) to go round a place:--Lǽssan ymbgang hæfð se mann þe gǽð ábútan án hús þonne sé ðe ealle ðá burh begǽð, Lch. iii. 248, 12. Iosue beeóde ðá burh seofon síðum, Hml. Th. ii. 214, 34. Ðeáh þá unriht-wísan ús úton begán on ǽlce healfe in circuitu impii ambulant, Ps. Th. 11, 9. (b) to reach by going, come upon, get at:--Hæfde se cyng hí fore begán mid ealre fyrde, Chr. 1009; P. 139, 19. (c) to go or pass by:--Hí bieódon (praetergrediebantur) Galileam, Mk. L. R. 9, 30. (2) intrans. (a) to go, come, get:--On beóde offendisset, i. inueniret, An. Ox. 3800. Beeóde heó intó ðám scræfe. Hml. Th. ii. 188, 16. (b) to pass by:--Ðe Hǽlend bieóde (trausiret), Mt. L. 20, 30. I a. figurative, (l) trans. To come by, get at:--Hú þæt gewrit begǽn wæs how they got at the manuscript, Guth. 48, 20. (2) intrans. (a) to come, fall to one's lot:--Swá oft swá him tó begǽð. Ll. Th. i. 434, 14. (b) to fall, get into debt, &c.:--ÐÚ eart on borg begán ðínum friénd incidisti in manus proximi tui, Past. 193, 18. II. of position, (l) to surround:--Deáþes geómerunga mé beeódon (circumdederunt), and helle sárnyssa mé beeódon, Hml. Th. ii. 86, 16. (2) to confine:--Hé hine sylfne beeóde swá him þearf wæs bútan racenteáge in swá mycclum landsticce ungebunden swá hé ǽr gebunden on wunode in tanto se spatio sine catena coercuit, in quanto et antea ligatus mansit, Gr. D. 214, 15. (3) to occupy:--Beóde incoluit, i. habitavit, An. Ox. 845. III. of action, to go about a business, (l) to attend to:--Wé sceolon on ðissum dagum begán úre gebedu, Hml. Th. i. 246, 27. Ðá ðing tó begánne and tó bewitanne ðe tó scipene belimpað, Angl. ix. 260, 3. (2) in Dict. be-gan">and fig.)">to cultivate (lit. and fig.):--Hié wel begáð hira plantan and hiera impan, Past. 381, 16. Hé his folces ðeáwas beeóde, swilce hé on wín-geardes biggencge swnnce, Hml. Th. ii. 74, 26. Begá exerce (agrum tuum), Kent. Gl. 940. On begánum stówum. Lch. i. 142, 7. (3) to worship:--Hwylcne god begǽst þú?, Nar. 41, 9. Begǽþ colit, i. venerat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 71. ꝥ UNCERTAIN hié beeódan ánne God, Bl. H. 185, 30. ꝥ UNCERTAIN hí beeóde dumbe deófolgeld, Nar. 39, 18. (3 a) to honour, venerate a place:--Hí þá stówe weorþodan and beeódan. Bl. H. 205, 7. Hiora hálignesse þe hí ǽr beeódan. Bd. 2, 13 ; Sch. 167, 17. (4) to exercise, practise an art, mode of life, &c.:--Hú begǽst þú (hunta) cræft þínne quomodo exerces artem tuam ?, Coll. M. 21, II: 19, II. Beóde exercuit (anachoreseos vitam), An. Ox. 3639. Se man þe begá wicce-cræft, Leto practise a religion, follow the dictates of:--Hé deófolgield georne beeóde nixus praecipuo cultu idolorum, Ors. 6, 31; S. 294, 15: Hml. S. 28, 6. Seó ǽfsestnes þe wébeeódon(beódan, v.l.) religio quam tenuimus, Bd. 2, 13; Sch. 164, 18. Hió swíþe gemetlíce þá gecynd beeódan (followed the dictates of nature), Bt. 15; F. 48, 8. Godes word mid weorcum begán. Hml. Th. ii. 554, 16. Crístendóm tó begánne. Ors. 6, 31; S. 286, 8. (6) to practise, carry on, do (habitually):--Þá unþeáwas þe seó þeód beeóde, Chr. 1067; P. 201, 30: Bl. H. 113, 2. Þá hálgan weras þe góde weorc beeódon, Ælfc. T. Grn. l, 9. Hí Godes ðeówdðm beeódan, Chr. 995; P. 129, 34. Hym álýfed ne byð ꝥ hé on ceápstówe ǽnige cýpinge begá (merca-turam ullam exercere), Ll. Th. ii. 174, 19. Godes lof begán, Bl. H. 43, 5. Þá gódan weorc þe wé for úre sáule hǽle begán sceoldan, 109, 5. ꝥ UNCERTAIN weorc begán þe wé ongunnen habbað, Angl. viii. 303, 19. (6 a) to devote one's self to a practice:--He begǽð unǽtas and oferdrincas and gálscipe commessationibus vacat et luxuriae atque conviviis, Deut. 21, 20. (7) to exercise a person; reflex. to behave:--Se man þe hine swá begǽþ swá hit hér on segð, Lch. ii. 288, 25. Hira nán ðe hine unwærlíce begá, Past. 23, 14. (7 a) to exercise in something:--Hé hine sylfne on gódum weorcum beeóde, Bd. 3, 27; Sch. 320, 6. Hé hine beeóde on gódre lífláde, Hml. S. 33, 328. Begá (exerce) þé sylfne on þisum. Coll. M. 31, 37. (8) to exercise, use, employ:--Ðá ðe ðone anwald begáð, Past. 121, 4. Sé þe þone lǽcedóm begá, Lch. ii. 296, 3. (9) to profess, pretend [cf. (?) O. Sax. quiðit that hé Kríst sí, begihit ina so grótes]:--Manna geþóhtas nǽnig mon ne wát, Petrus begǽþ ꝥ hé hit wite men's thoughts no man knows. Peter professes to have this knowledge, Bl. H. 181, 12. [O. H. Ger. pi-gán.] v. mis-, un-begán; be-gangan, and bi-gán in Dict. be-gan,began

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