Ge-búgan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-búgan

Add: I. intrans. (1) to bow, bend the body :-- Hé hine on cirican gebidde, and tó Godes weófedan gebúge, Ll. Th. i. 334, 30. Se wyrm gebeáh tósomne. ... Gewát gebogen scríðan, B. 2569. Ábogenre l ge[bogenre] curva, Hpt. Gl. 436, 62. (2) to bend one's steps, turn, go. (α) of persons :-- Gé þearfum forwyrndon þæt hí under eówrum þæce mósten in gebúgan, Cri. 1505. (β) of things :-- Þý lǽs se áttres ord in gebúge under bánlocan, Cri. 768. (2 a) of withdrawal, retirement, voluntary or enforced :-- Hé gebeáh binnan twám geárum tó þám ylcan mynstre and munuc wearð. Hml. S. 21, 88. ꝥ muneca gehwylc þe úte sý of mynstre ... gebúge into mynstre, Ll. Th. i. 306, 3. Gehádod man ... borh finde, oþþe on carcerne gebúge, 168, 8. (3) of adhesion, submission, &c., by a follower, vassal, tenant, worshipper, &c. (a) to a person or institution :-- Ic wille beón N. hold and getríwe ... and eall ꝥ lǽste ꝥ uncer formǽl wæs, þá ic tó him gebeáh and his willan geceás, Ll. Th. i. 178, 9. Hé gebéh ... mid lande intó Sce UNCERTAIN Augustine, and ǽlce geáre gyld ... .i. pund tó geswutelunga ... and æfter his dæge gange þæt land intó Sce UNCERTAIN Augustine, C.D. ii. 300, 6. Mid þǽm monnum þe him tó gebugon, Chr. 901; P. 92, 7. ꝥ ðú gebúge mid biggengum tó þǽre gydenan Uesta, Hml. S. 7, 100. Behát Gode ꝥ ðú tó him gebúge, gif hé þé nú gehelpð, 353: Ll. Th. i. 424, 4. ꝥ Basilia sceolde gebúgan to ðám cnihte, oþþe man hí tóheówe. Hml. S. 2, 359. Mid þám flotan þe him tó gebogen wæs, Chr. 904; P. 93, 24. (b) to a belief, practice, condition, &c.:-- Mynstermunuc gǽð of his mǽglage þonne hé gebýhð tó regollage, Ll. Th. i. 346, 3. Ǽlces hádes men gebúgan tó þám rihte þe him tó gebyrige, 304, 24; 348, 29: 378, 12. Fela manna nolde to godcundre bóte gebúgan, 166, 16. Gif preóst tó rihte gebúgan nelle, ac ongeán biscopes gerǽdnesse wiðerige, ii. 296, 17. Ǽr hé hæbbe tó ǽlcum rihte gebogen, i. 250, 1. Þǽm. gebogenan mǽdene to the converted maiden, Hml. S. 2, 88. Seó cwén and Decius dohtor to Crístes geleáfan and tó ðám hálwendum fulluhte gebogene wǽron, Hml. Th. i. 434, 25. (4) of abandonment, defection :-- Ðá Wylisce men syððon hí fram þám cynge gebugon, heom manege ealdras of heom sylfan gecuron. Chr. 1097; P. 233, 20. Maníg fram þám eorle gebogen wæs, 1091 ; P. 226, 9. II. trans. To submit to. Cf. I. 2, 3 :-- Gebúge hé hengenne and þǽr gebíde, Ll. Th. i. 396, 27. Man nolde godcunde bóte gebúgan, 166, 18. Ǽr þám þe hé hæbbe godcunde bóte gebogene, 312, 3. [Goth, ga-biugan to bend: O.H. Ger. ge-biugan curvare.] ge-bugan