Ge-eácnian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-eácnian

Add: I. to make greater, add to, increase, augment :-- Hé his synna geeácnað, Hml. S. 16, 292. Wé geeácniað heora werod, Hml. Th. i. 214, 23. Hí mid ðám geeácniað yfelnysse him sylfum. Hml. S. 13, 298. Ic heóld þínes fæder gestreón, and furðor hí geeácnode, 9, 43. Hé ðæs dæges leóht geeácnode mid ðám scínendum tunglum, Hex. 6, 31. Ic wylle míne bernu geeácnian (horrea mea majora faciam, Lk. 12, 18), Wlfst. 286, 19. Hí ne sceolon heora bodunge álecgan, ac swíðor geeácnian, Hml. Th. ii. 232, 15: Chr. 1067; P. 201, 28: Geieácnian, Cht. Th. 125, 18. Wé sceolan geeácnian ús þá écean spéda, Hml. S. 12, 269. Geeácnude weldǽda macta merita, An. Ox. 3542. II. to add :-- Þá sóna geeácnode (geécte, ) hé þǽr tó 'þínes múðes,' Gr. D. 139, 8. Þ UNCERTAIN hé geeácnige áne elne tó hys anlícnesse adicere ad staturam suam cubitum unum, Mt. 6, 27. Ealle þás þing eów beóð þǽr tó geeácnode haec omnia adicientur vobis, 33. III. to become or to make pregnant :-- Þonne hraþe geeácnað heó, Lch. i. 346, 7. Wíf tó geeácnigenne to make a woman pregnant, 4. Ǽr ðon þe beó geeácnad wǽre before she conceived, Shrn. 47, 29. Eua cende hire bearn on sáre, for þon þe heó on synnum geeácnod wæs . . . Maria fǽmne cende, for ðon heó wæs fǽmne geeácnod, Bl. H. 3, 13-17, 18, 22. Heó geeácnod wæs of þǽm Hálgan Gáste, 11, 14. Þæt wíf mid bearne geeácnod wæs, Guth. 8, 12. IV. to conceive a child :-- Geeácnaþ concipit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 22. An mǽden sceal geeácnian (concipiet) and ácennan sunu, Hml. Th. ii. 14, 2. Geécnande concipiens, Lk. L. l, 31. Geécnad wére conciperetur, 2, 21. Sé þe wæs geeácnod of þám Hálgan Gáste qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, Ps. L. fol. 199, 5. Þonne him sió sóðfæsðnes on geeácnod bið, ǽr ðǽm ðe hit fullboren sié, Past. 367, 17. Hwæðer hé wite þe nyte, hwænne hé geeácnod (-éc-, v.l.) wǽre, Gr. D. 262, 19. On synne hé bið geeácnod, Bl. H. 59, 34. Geeácnud (regenerantis gratiae vulva] conceptus. An. Ox. 3134. V. to bring forth :-- Ic wæs geeácnad ego parturiebar, Kent. Gl. 267. ge-eacnian

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