p. ode; pp. od. I. to lessen, diminish :-- Se láreow ne sceál ða inneran giémenne gewanian for ðære úterran abisgunge the teacher is not to diminish his care of inner things for outer occupations, Past. 18, 1; Swt. 127, 8; Hat. MS. His cynelícan gefe gewonian to diminish his royal gift, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ii. 304, 27. Ðone hryre ðe se feallenda deófol on engla werode gewanode the loss that the falling devil caused in the host of angels, Homl. Th. i. 32, 23: 214, 24. He his godcundnesse nán wiht ne gewanode he did not at all diminish his divinity, Blickl. Homl. 91, 9. Gewanude, Th. Chart. 203, 36. Gewonade, Exon. 44 a; Th. 148, 19; Gú. 747. Búton he his flǽsclícan lustas gewanige unless he diminish his fleshly lusts, Homl. Th. i. 96, 3: Past. 48, 1; Swt. 127, 12; Hat. MS. Ne gé nán þing ne gewanion ye shall not diminish ought, Ex. 5, 8. Gewonige, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ii. 100, 27. Is mín flet-werod gewanod my band of retainers is lessened, Beo. Th, 958; B. 477: Cd. 24; Th. 31, 6; Gen. 481: Gen. 8, 1. Ðá wæs ðæm tunglum gewonad heora beorhtnes then had the stars their brightness diminished, Shrn. 64, 22. II. to be wanting :-- Giwonia deesse, Rd. 71, 37. ge-wanian