Ge-edníwian, -níwan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-edníwian, -níwan

Add: (1) to renew what is weakened, restore to efficiency :-- Ðæt góde mód, ðe sió hǽlo ful oft áweg ádriéfð, ðæt gemynd ðǽre medtrymnesse geedniéwað (-níwað, Past. 255, 17. Þú mé geedníwodest mín ríce tu restituisti mihi haereditatem meam, Ps. Th. 15, 5. Tó þám ǽrrum antimbre geedníw-ude (fragmina) in pristinum statum reformavit (i. innouauit), An. Ox. 1832. Críst ús geedníwode tó his gelícnisse, Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 34. God wolde þurh hine geedníwigian ðisne ealdne middangeard. Hml. S. 22, 12. Wæs úre gecynd geedneówod, Bl. H. 11, 10. Þonne wesaþ þíne handa geedneówode, 153, 12. Swá oft swá hí beóð mé ásægde, hí beóð mé geednýwde mihi quoties narratur, innouatur, Gr. D. 255, 28. (2) to restore a disused practice :-- Se cásere Godes cyrcan gegódode . . . and Godes lof geedníwode. Hml. S. 27, 135. (3) to renew an action, do again what has been done before, repeat :-- Se man þe æfter his dǽdbóte his mánfullan dǽda geedníwað, Hml. S. 12, 162. Wé geedníwiað and gemyndgiað dǽre scylde ðe úre ieldesta mǽg ús on forworhte parentis primi lapsus iteratur, Past. 313, 14. Geedníwa instaura, Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 20. [O. H. Ger. ge-niuwón reformare, reparare.] ge-edniwian

Related words: l.) (reformat),