Ge-dúfan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-dúfan

Add: (i) lit. :-- Gif hit (the ordeal) sý wæter, ꝥ hé gedúfe óðre healfe elne on þám rápe, Ll. Th. i. 212, 2. (2) fig. to plunge into sin, & c. :-- Swá hit him áliéfedlicre ðyncð, swá hé ðǽr diópor on gedýfð quod licitum suspicatur, in hoc multiplicius mergitur, Past. 427, 27. Ðá ðe gehealdað wið ðá lytlan scylda, and hwílum gedúfað on ðǽm miclan (aliquando in gravibus demerguntur), 437, 33 : 439, 8. [For the passage from Ors. l, 7 see ge-deorfan.] ge-dufan