Ge-dihtan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dihtan
p. -dihte; pp. -dihted, -diht. I. to put in order, dispose, compose, arrange, conspire; disponere, componere, conspirare :-- Nú sindon twá béc gesette on endebyrdnisse to Salomones bócum, swilce he híg gedihte now two books are set in order after Solomon's books, as if he composed them, Ælfc. T; Swt. A. S. Rdr. 69, 402. Béda ðe ðas bóc gedihte Bede who composed this book, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 102, 224. Ðá gedihton ða Iudeas jam conspiraverant Judæi, Jn. Bos. 9, 22. Gediht digestus, ordinatus, Hpt. Gl. 409. II. to order, direct, appoint; dirigere, dictare :-- Híg dydon swá, swá swá him gedihte Iosue they did as Joshua directed them, Josh. 6, 23. Ðis gewrit wæs to ánum menn gediht this writing was directed to a particular man, Ælfc. T; Swt. A. S. Rdr. 56, 1. [Laym. to dæðe idihte.]

Related words: dihtan. ge-dihtan

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