Ge-dafenian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dafenian

Add: -- Gedafnaþ conuenit, Wülck. Gl. 252, 15. (1) the subject a noun, (a) with dat. or uncertain :-- Rehtwíse gedeofenað efenherenis rectis decet conlaudatio, Ps. Srt. 32, l. Ðé gedeafenað ymen, 64, 2. . . . Húse ðínum gedeafineað (decent) ðá hálgan, 92, 5 Gedafenie[n]dre beclýsinge competenti clausula, An. Ox. 5356. (b) with infin. or clause :-- Swylces módes wer má gedafonade (-dafen-, beón tó bysceope gehálgad (ꝥ hé wǽre tó bisceope gehálgod, v. l.) þonne hé cyning wǽre a man of such a disposition was more suited to be consecrated a bishop than to be a king ; talis anirni uirum episcopum magis quam regem ordinari deceret, Bd. 4, ii ; Sch. 404, 2. (2) the subject a pronoun, (a) with an infin. :-- Hú hit gedafenige on his gesihðe beón qualiter oporteat in conspectu ejus esse, R. Ben. l. 52, 17. (b) with a clause in apposition :-- Wel ꝥ gedafenaþ ꝥ hé tó eorþan ástige, Bl. H. 13, 19: Cri. 551. Wel ꝥ gedafenode ꝥ Dryhten swá dyde, Bl. H. 67, 12: 77, 12. (3) without a subject, (a) alone :-- Godes laga bealdan swá swá his háde gedafenað, Ll. Th. i. 346, 24. Dó hire swá dohtrum gedafenað faciet illi juxta morem filiorum, Ll. Lbmn. 30, 6 note, (b) with a clause :-- Mé gedafenaþ þæt ic nú tódæg þé gecyrre, Hml. Th. i. 580, 33 : Bl. H. 227, 13 : 55, 4: 149, 11. Ús gedafanað ꝥ . . . , Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 362, 15. (c) with infin. :-- Þá án þá þe tó ǽfæstnesse belumpon, and his þá ǽfestan tungan gedafenode (-deofanade, v.l.) singan ea tantummodo, quae ad religionem pertinent, religiosam ejus linguam decebant, Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 482, 9. (d) with gerundial infin. :-- Swá ǽnigan crístenan mæn ne gedafenað tó dónne, Ll. Th. i. 316, II. Hú monnum gedafonode (-dafen-, v. l.) on hiera beddum tó dónne, Past. 99, 20. ge-dafenian

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