Ge-dihtan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dihtan

Add: (i) to direct, order, give direction to a person (dat.) :-- Wíse menn hit áfunden þurh þone hálgan wísdóm, swá heomGod gedihte, Lch. iii. 154, 7. Án scyp þe Godd sylf gedihte Nóe to wyrcaune, Wlfst. 10, 10. (l a) with acc. of direction, to give a direction :-- Hé gedihte þisne cwyde . . . 'Nimað þisne scyldigan . . . ' Þá tugon hí þone hálgan wer, swá hé him gediht hæfde, Hml. S. 14, 151-159. (2) to direct what is to be written or spoken, dictate a letter, speech, & c. :-- Seó ealde gesetnys ðe hé þurh Móysen gedihte, Hml. Th. ii. 56, 16. Þæt gewrit áwrát Godes ængel, swá swá seó hálige þrynnys hit gedihte, Wlfst. 292, 21. Ðá áwrát se earming mid his ágenre handa, swá swá se deófol him gedihte þone pistol, Hml. S. 3, 383. (3) to appoint, ordain :-- Ymbreufæstena healde man rihte, swá swá Scs UNCERTAIN Gregorius Angelcynne hit gedihte, Wlfst. 272, 18 : Ll. Th. i. 320, 21. Dǽdbóta sind gedihte on mislice wísan, ii. 282, 3. (4) to order, manage, rule :-- Þæt heáfod gewissað þám óðrum limum, swá swí þæt mód gediht ðá geðóhtas. Hml. Th. i. 612, 14. (43) of the divine ordering :-- God is swá mihtig, þæt hé ealle ðing gediht and gefadað bútan geswince, Hml. Th. i. 470, 24 : Hml. A. 24, 15: Lch. iii. 27814. (5) to compose a letter, verse, & c. :-- Ǽrendgewrit þe on þyson and gíte wæs gediht, Hml. S. 23, 792. Þás vers mid gyldenum stafum áwritene þus wǽron on his sprǽce gedihte, Angl. viii. 325, 48. (5 α) to draw up regulations, laws, & c. :-- Ðás týn beboda God sylf gedihte and áwrat, Wlfst. 66, 21. Án þára gerǽdnessa þe Engla cyning gedihte mid his witena geþeahte, Ll. Th. i. 340, 4. (6) to construct, mate :-- Se Fæder gedihte ealle gesceafta þurh his Wísdóm, and se Wísdóm is his Sunu, Hml. Th. ii. 206, 16. God gesceóp man on ðám sixtan dæge, ðá ðá hé gesceafta gedihte, 260, 22. (7) to perform, do :-- Þá ealle þás ðinge þurh Godes fadunge þus wurdon gedihte, Hml. S. 23, 347. (8) to arrange :-- God þás þingc swá gescifte, and mid his fadunge gedihte, ꝥ heora nán gefélan ne mihte, Hml. S. 23, 257. Hú hé þurh gesihðe gedihte þá mynstertimbrunge de fabrica monasterii per visionem at eo disposita, Gl. D. 147, ii. Þæs mynstres getimbrunga gedíhtan. Hml. Th. ii. 172, ii. Hé sceall ládunge gedihtan ꝥ ǽnig man óðrum ǽnig wóh beódan ne mæge, Ll. Th. ii. 312, 16. Gedihtere endebyrdnesse sealmsangas disposito ordine psalmodie, R. Ben. I. 51, 4. Síþbóc gedihte itinerarium digestum (decem voluminibus], An. Ox. 2024. Gedihte digesta (antiquarum arcam legum ab illo mirabiliter digesta), 147 : 2175. (9) to deck, adorn :-- Gediht vel gesiwad hrægel aucupicta vel frigia vestis, Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 18. ge-dihtan