p. -beád, pl. -budon; pp. -boden [ge-, beódan to command]. I. to command, order, summon; jŭbēre, mandāre :-- Hét gebeódan byre Wihstánes hæleða monegum boldágendra, ðæt hie bǽlwudu feorran feredon Wihstan's son bade command many house-owning men, that they should convey pile-wood from afar, Beo. Th. 6211; B. 3110 : Elen. Kmbl. 551; El. 276. II. to announce, proclaim; annuntiāre :-- Hit beó seofon nihtum geboden ǽr let it be announced seven days before, L. Ath. i. 20; Th. i. 208, 27 : Cd. 183; Th. 229, 27; Dan. 223. III. to offer, propose, give, grant; offerre, præbēre :-- Hiera se æðeling gehwelcum feoh and feorh gebeád to each of them the noble offered money and life, Chr. 755; Erl. 50, 5, 15. Gebudon him Perse ðæt hí hæfdon iii winter sibbe wið hí the Persians proposed that they should have peace with them for three years, Ors. 3, 1; Bos. 52, 27. [O. Sax. gibiodan : O. H. Ger. ga-biutan, -piotan : Ger. gebieten.] ge-beodan