p. ode, ade; pp. od, ad To mark, point out, describe, assign, appoint, determine; nŏtāre, signāre, designāre, assignāre, constĭtuĕre, decernĕre :-- He gemet ne con gemearcian his múðe móde síne he cannot set bounds to his mouth with his mind, Exon. 87 b; Th. 330, 18; Vy. 53. Ic wolde gesecgan hú Créca gewinn, ðe of Lacedemonia ðære byrig ǽrest onstæled wæs, and, mid spellcwydum gemearcian I wished to tell how the war of the Greeks was first raised from the city of the Lacedæmonians, and, in the language of history, to describe it, Ors. 3, 1; Bos. 54, 34. Ðú him mete sylest, mǽla gehwylce, and ðæs tídlíce tíd gemearcast to das escam illis in tempŏre opportūno, Ps. Th. 144, 16. Symle he twelf síþum tída gemearcaþ dæges and nihtes it ever marks the hours of day and night twelve times, Exon. 58 a; Th. 207, 24; Ph. 146. Se Hǽlend gemearcode óðre twá and hundseofentig designāvit Dŏmĭnus et alios septuaginta duos, Lk. Bos. 10, 1 : Bd. 3, 9; S. 534, 2. Hæfde hire wácran hige Metod gemearcod to her the Creator had appointed a weaker mind, Cd. 28; Th. 37, 17; Gen. 591 : 38; Th. 50, 25; Gen. 814. Getácnod oððe gemearcod is ofor us leóht andwlitan ðínes signātum est sŭper nos lūmen vultus tui, Ps. Lamb. 4, 7. He is wuldre gemearcad it is marked with glory, Exon. 60 b; Th. 220, 11; Ph. 318. Hí hæfdon ǽlce scire on West-Sexum stíðe gemarcod mid bryne and mid hergunge they had severely marked every shire of Wessex with burning and harrying, Chr. 1006; Erl. 141, 2. Gemearca hú hý ǽr stódon mark how they stood before, Lchdm. i. 398, 5.