Biddan

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biddan

Add: I. to ask, make a request :-- Hit bið swá þú bidest. Shrn. 89, 1. Biddað, and gé underfóð, Jn. 16, 24. Nele se sláwa erian on wintra, ac hé wile biddan on sumera, Past. 285, 6. þ hé þon bid-dendan líf forgeáfe, Bl. H. 19, 35. II. to ask, make request to a person (acc.) :-- Gehýrð Drihten þá þe hine biddað. Ll. Th. ii. 394, 4. Hié mid hálsunga hine bǽdon and þus cwǽdon, Bl. H. 87, 8 : 247, 33: 249, 6. Drihten wile ꝥ hine mon bidde, 19, 34. Hí bedene wǽron, Bd. 2, 5; Sch. 206, 15. II a. (also IV) with object of request given, (1) by gen. (v. III. 1) :-- Hé ne biddeð ús nánes þinges. Hex. 44, 1. Bide helpes hine, Dóm. L. 36, 14. Ne biddan wé úrne Drihten þyses lǽnan welan. Bl. H. 21, 10. Hié þá burgware ongunnon ánwigges biddan, 201, 22. (2) by acc. :-- Hwæne hé byddan mihte fultum, Ap. Th. 12, 14. (3) by a clause :-- Ic ðæc biddo, ðæt him fiónd ne sceððe. Shrn. 73, 3. Bidde, Bl. H. 57, 33. Bide, 151, 23. Ic þé bidde for þínum naman, ꝥ. . .147, 10. þone þú bǽde, þæt hé ásende his englas, Hml. Th. ii. 416, 15. (3 a) and subject of clause">with ellipsis of þæt and subject of clause :-- Wilt þú fremdne monnan biddan þé gesecge, Sch. 4. (4) by infin. :-- Hé bæd gangan forð góde geféran, By. 170. (4 a) and subject of clause">with ellipsis of infin. :-- Heó bæd hine blíðne (wesan), B. 617. (5). (4) and (3 a) together :-- Hé bæd hine áreccan, hwæt seó rún bude, hófe háligu word, Dan. 542-3. (6) with prep. :-- Hí ongunnon for his hreddinge God biddan, Hml. Th. i. 534, 27. II b. to pray to (withprep. ) :-- pú tó omnes sanctos bidde, ꝥ hí þé þingian, Dóm. L. 36, 23. III. (v. also IV) to ask for something, (1) with gen. (v. II a. I) :-- Hé bideð (bidt, v. l. ) ingonges, Past. 284, 15. Hé bideþ þæs écan leóhtes, Bl. H. 17, 35. Hié biddaþ þínre onlésnesse, 81, 22. Se blinda ne bæd goldes, 21, 5. Ne bidde gé þæs, 227, 13. (2) with acc. :-- Dó þæt ic bidde, BI. H. 245, 20. Ne bǽde gé nán þing on mínum naman, Jn. 16, 24. Wé sceolon infær biddan, Hml. Th. ii. 572, 9. Gif þæt byð beden, ná on naman Hælendes byð beden, Scint. 32, 5. (3) with gen. and acc. :-- Ne bæd se blinda náðor ne goldes, ne seolfres, ne náne woruldlice ðing, Hml. Th. 1. 158, 20. (4) with a clause :-- Wé biddaþ ꝥ þú fram ús ne gewíte, Bl. H. 145, 18. Hé bæd ꝥ hé móste faran, 23, 13: 211, 29. Hí bǽdan ꝥ óþer seonað wǽre, Bd. 2, 2 ; Sch. 115, 22. III a. to ask something of a person, (1) with gen. of thing :-- ꝥ hí witon hwæs hí biddað æt Gode, Hml. S. 12, 266. Hé wæs biddende ánes lytles troges æt ánum earman men, Ors. 2, 5; S. 84, 14. (2) with acc. of thing :-- Ne bideþ hé æt ús edleán, Bl. H. 103, 20. Swá hwæt swá gé biddað æt mínum Fæder, Hml. Th. ii. 526, 34. Hí bǽdon lǽfe æt mé, Guth. 62, 13. Uton biddan leóht æt úrum Drihtne, Hml. Th. i. 158, 26. (3) with clause :-- Hé bæd æt Gode þæt hé móste fandian Ióbes, Hml. Th. i. 6, 10. IV. with the person for whom request is made, (1) given by dat. (a) with construction of III. I :-- Wé ús forgifnessa (or acc. ?) biddaþ. Bl. H. 19, 29. Men him forgifnesse biddaþ, 77, 17: 107, 22. Sum þearfa sæt nacod, and bæd him hrægles, 213, 33. Ðá cild bǽdon him hláfes, ac næs nán mann ðe ðone hláf him betwýnan tóbrǽce, Hml. Th. ii. 400, 26. Ǽr þ ám þe hé him ryhtes bidde. Ll. Th. i. 90, 3. (b) with construction of II a. I :-- Hé bæd him fultumes willgeþoftan, Gen. 2025. (c) with construction of II a. 4 :-- Hé bæd him þá rincas rǽd áhicgan, Gen. 2030. (d) with construction of II b :-- ꝥ þú him tó þeossum hálgum helpe bidde, Gr. D. 2, 11. (e) with construction of III a. 2 :-- Hwí ne bidst þú þé beþunga and plaster æt freán, Dóm. L. 80. Hé bæd þám treówe fyrst æt ðám hláforde, Hml. Th. ii. 408, 17. Biddað eów þingunge æt þysum martyrum, i. 88, 33. (2) with prep. :-- Bide for ús, þæt God þás nǽddran fram ús áfyrsige, Hml. Th. ii. 238, 14. V. construction uncertain :-- Bæd inprecabatur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 80, 58. Hió wæs beden interpellata, 44, 70. v. un-beden, -biddende. biddan