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Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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Add :-- Gewonede dempsit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 54. Gewanude vel gelytlade deminute, 138, 67. (1) the object material :-- Geónet spéd bið gewanad substantia festinata minuetur, Kent. Gl. 441. Gewane[dum] locca fexe dempta cincinnorum cesarie, An. Ox. 5047. Gewanedum dempta, Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 55. (2) the object non-material. (a) to lessen in extent, degree :-- Hié sint tó manianne ðæt hié nó hiera fæsten ne gewanigen admonendi sunt, ut abstinentiam suam sine imminutione custodiant, Past. 315, 9. Hit dereð ðæt sió sibb ne sié gewanod betwux ðǽm yfelum est noxium, si unitas non desit mails, 361, 10. Hé wénþ þæt his gesǽlþa sién oþþe suíþe gewanode oððe mid ealle forlorene, Bt. 11, 1; F. 32, 23. (b) to lessen in worth, make inferior, degrade, depreciate :-- Ðonne gewaniað hié ðone hád and gewemmað superioris loci meritum diminuunt, Past. 413, 2. Se æht ðára gódra weorca, ðe hé ǽr beeóde, bið gewanod aestimatio anteacta minuitur, 133, 23; Bt. 13; F. 38, 28: 35, 4; F. 162, 29. Gewanedum effeta (voluntate). An. Ox. 8, 280. (3) of wrongful diminution by encroachment, infringement, &c., or by withholding what should be given :-- Ic geeácnode tó ðǽre ǽrran sylene ... nán ðǽra cyninga þe cumað æfter mé mid unrihte ðiss ne áwende oððe gewanige, C. D. iii. 61, 25. Gyf hé ðisne minne sundorfreóls gewanige oððe gelytlige si quis hoc nostrum privilegium minuent vel dempserit, 350, 16. Wé forhealdað ǽghwǽr Godes gerihta, and ne dear man gewanian on hǽðenum þeódum ǽnig þǽra þinga þe gedwolgodon tó lácum betǽht bið, Wlfst. 157, 15. ge-wanian