Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-licgan

Part of speech: -licgean;

Definitions

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1 ge-licgan

p. -læg, pl. -lǽgon; pp. -legen. I. to lie, lie near, together; jacere, adjacere, conjacere :-- Mægen-stán him on middan geligeþ a huge stone lies in the middle of it, Bt. Met. Fox 5, 32; Met. 5, 16. Stedewangas strǽte gelicgaþ fixed plains lie near the road, Andr. Kmbl. 668; An. 334. On ðæm gelæg in quo jacebat, Lk. Skt. Lind. 5, 25. Ðá heó ðǽr on gelegen wæs when she had lain down there, Ors. 5, 13; Bos. 113, 23. II. to lie down, fail, cease, loiter, delay; deficere, cessare :-- Windblond gelæg the wind-storm ceased, Bon. Th. 6284; B. 3146. Ne mihte se níþ betwux him twám gelicgean the strife between the two could not be appeased, Ors. 3, 11; Bos. 75. 36. ge-licgan

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛚᛁᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

An.: Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.: Andreas (OE poem)
Bt.: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Met.: Metres of Boethius (OE poem)
Ors.: Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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