Ge-axian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-axian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-axian
p. ode; pp. od [acsian to ask] To find out by asking, learn, hear; exquīrĕre, resciscĕre, audīre :-- Swá hwá swá ðæt geaxaþ, he hlihþ eác mid me quicumque audiĕrit, corrīdēbit mihi, Gen. 21, 6. Æfter ðære tíde ðe he geaxode fram ðám tungelwítegum sĕcundum tempus exquīsiĕrat a māgis, Mt. Bos. 2, 16. Geaxodon ða cynegas audiērunt rēges, Jos. 5, 1 : L. AIf. 49; Th. i. 56, 14, MS. H. Geaxode dómas responsa, Ælfc. Gl. 14; Som. 57, 131; Wrt. Voc. 20, 68.

Related words: ge-ascian, ge-acsian. ge-axian

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