Be-gangan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

be-gangan

Add: I. of movement, (l) to go about:--Begangende forðan þe hé gewilnode ꝥ hé sumne fæder on þám wéstene UNCERTAIN funde. Hml. S. 23 b, 156. (2) to go by:--Bigongende (-geong-, L.) praelereuntem, Mk. R. 15, 21. II. of action, to go about a business, (l) to attend to, see after a person:--Hé bebeód Maria Josephe tó gémenne and tó begeonganne, Mt. L. I, 18 note. (2) to worship:--God þone Columbe begangeð, Shrn. 47, 8. Hiá mé begangaþ (colunt), Mt. R. 15, 9. His godas þe hé begongende (-gónde, ) wæs, Ors. 4, I; S. 154, 34. (2 a) to honour, celebrate a day:--Ealle þá dagas synt mid gelícere eáwfæstnysse tó begangenne, Ll. Th. ii. 438, 27. (3) to exercise, prac-tise an art:--Þæt cræft mínne ic begancge (exerceam), Coll. M. 22, 34. Þæt ánra gehwylc cræft his geornlíce begange, 31, 33. (4) to practise a religion:--Þá þe swelc deófolgild lufiað and bigongað, Ors. 4, 12; S. 210, 6. (5) to practise, do (habitually), commit sin:--Men þe beforan óþrum mannum hwæthuga gód begangaþ, Bl. H. 5 7, 2. Þá þe galdorcræftas begangaþ, 61, 23. Þá þe wóhhǽmed begangaþ, 14. Náht unálýfedlíces be-gangan, Shrn. 65, ii. Hié angiennað smeágean suíðor ðonne him ðearf sié tó begonganne se in inquisitionibus plus quam necesse est exercentes, Past. 67, 4. Ne morðor tó begangenne (fremmenne, v.l.) . . . ne þeó-fenda tó begangenne, Wlfst. 253, 7, 9. Ne hé gálnysse næs begangende, Guth. 12, 16. (6) to exercise, use:--Wið ðá wiðerweardan ne ondrǽde hé ðæt hé begonge his ryhtwísnesse erga perversos jura rectitudinis exercere non formidet, Past. 107, 17. [O. Sax. bi-gangan to attend to; O. H. Ger. pi-gangan.] v. be-gán. be-gangan

Related words: l.