Ge-beódan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-beódan

Add I. to order a person (dat.) to do something :-- Héht hire þá áras gebeódan Constantínus, þæt hió cirican . . . getim-brede, El. 1007. Gif him þæt fæsten swá geboden nǽre, Wlfst. 181, 13. II. to order to come, summon :-- Ic gefrægn folctogan fyrd gebeódan, Gen. 1961. III. to proclaim, announce :-- Suá hwér geboden bið godspell ðis ubicumque praedicatum fuerit evangelium istud, Mk. L. R. 14, 9. III a. to proclaim as an edict or ordinance :-- Gebeád hé sínum leódum, þæt sé wǽre his aldre scyldig þe þæs onsóce, Ðan. 449. þænne bises geboden weorðe, Men. 32. III b. to give official notice of: -- Hié hine his mǽgum gebeóden (gebodien, ), Ll. Th. i. 64, 19. Hit beó seofon nihtum geboden ǽr gemót sý notice of a meeting must be given seven days before it. is to be held, 208, 27. IV. to offer, (1) to offer for acceptance, (a) of material objects :-- Hé Willferð bæd þæt hé him þæs síðfates látteów wǽre, and him micel feoh wið þám gebeád (promissa non parua pecuniarum donatione), Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 372, 13. Him Hygd gebeád hord and ríce, B. 2369. Hé him ǽt gebeád, Ph. 401. Ne sceal him mon ánne mete gebeódan, ac missenlice, Lch. ii. 240, 15. (b) of non-material objects, to offer a condition, homage, respect, &c. :-- Wurþmynt gebeódan, Hml. S. ii. 8. Úrum Hǽlende hyldo gebeódan, Ps. Th. 94, 1. Gebodenes sinscipes, An. Ox. 3910. Gebodene oblatam, 3595. (2) to give into the power of, commit :-- Gif hé self his wǽpno his gefán út rǽcan wille. . . hié hine his mágum gebeóden (or under III ?, the Lat. version has offeratur, but gebodien is in one MS. ), Li. Th. i. 64, 19. Geboden tó bǽle, Dan. 414. (3) to offer to do, do to a person :-- Rihtlaga is þæt man óðran gebeóde, þæt hé wylle, þæt man him gebeóde, Wlfst. 274, 12. þæt úre ǽlc . . . nánum ne gebeóde þæt, þæt hé nelle þæt man him gebeóde, Hml. Th. i. 260, 30-32. Hwí wolde gé mé þásþing gebeódan (cf. for hwon wolde gé wiþ mé þús dón quare in mefacere ista voluistis ? Gr. D. 105, 19), ii. 158, 25. (4) to offer, present, cause to be subject to what is unpleasant :-- For þǽm lytlan ege þe him mon gebeád, Ors. 3, 1 ; S. 94, 27. Ic him Geáta sceal eafoð and ellen gebeódan, B. 603. þé gúðgewinn geboden wyrðed, An. 219. ge-beodan

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