Ge-licgan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

ge-licgan

Add: I. of living creatures. (1) to be in a prostrate or recumbent position:--Hé gelæg (jacebat) tó dura his, Lk. L. 16, 20. In ðǽm gelæg menigo micelo, Jn. L. R. 5, 3. (2) to assume a prostrate or recumbent position:--Benedictus eóde tó ðæs cnapan líce, and ðǽr on uppon gelæg, Hml. Th. ii. 182, 15. (3) to lie sick, be confined to bed:--Hé gefeóll of ánre stægere and for ðý gelæg (cecidit per cancellos coenaculi sui, et aegrotavit, 2 Kings 1, 2), Hml. S. 18, 232. Gelegen wæs swér Sýmónes febrende wæs decumbebat socrus Simonis febricitans, Mk. L. R. 1, 30. (4) to lie with a person, have sexual intercourse with:--Gif man wið cyninges maegdenman geligeð, Ll. Th. i. 6, 4, 11, 13: 10, 6. Gif man mid esnes cwynan geligeð, 24, 9. Gif óðer mon mid hire gelǽge ǽr, 68, 17. II. of inanimate things. (1) material, to rest in a horizontal position on a surface:--Þæs hálgan weres líc on þám ceosole gelæg, Hml. S. 37, 271. (2) non-material, to be appointed (cf. what lies before a person = what is to happen to him):--Gif ðæt God geteód habbe, ond mé ðæt on lǽne gelíð ðæt gesibbra ærfeweard forðcymeð, C. D. ii. 121, 26. III. of land, to pertain, appertain to:--Mid eallum ðám túnum ðe him tó gelicgað cum uillulis omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus, C. D. iii. 350, 6. IV. to be overcome with fear:--Mið ðý ðóhte gelegeno (gelegne, R.) woeron dum mente consternatae essent, Lk. L. 24, 4. [O. Sax. gi-liggian: O. H. Ger. ge-ligen, -likken.]

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