Ge-endian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-endian

Add: I. trans. (1) where the subject of the verb ceases to do something, to bring to an end, to come to an end of :-- Þá se Hǽlend þás word geendode, Mt. 7, 28. Þá se Hǽlend geendode þás bigspel, 13, 53, Wé móton nú geendian þyses godspelles race, Hml. A. 71, 160, Ðiós rédo geendad bið (finitur) on stóue ðér cuuoeð. Lk. p. 11, 16. Ðæt is tó tácne ðæt mon endebyrðllce ðone biscepdóm healde, ðæt hé hine on gódum weorcum geendige, Past. 53, 23. Geendedre transacto (officio), An. Ox. 2144. ¶ líf geendian to die :-- Ǽghwylc þára manna þe his líf geendaþ on þyssum, Bl. H. 37, 4: 61, 2. Ðá ðe hira líf on firenluste geendigað (-endiað, ). Past. 251, 7. Hé fægere ende his líf betýnde and geendade pulchro uitam suam fine conclusit, Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 488, 8: Hml. Th. ii. 544, 31. (2) with the idea of extinction, destruction, to put an end to, make an end of, consume, finish :-- Æfter ðon alle geendade postquam omnia consummasset, Lk. L. 15, 14. God gemynte his yfelnysse tó geendigenne, Hml. Th. i. 414, 6. Hé is tóweard þás world tó geendenne, Bl. H. 81, 36. (2 a) to kill a person, destroy life :-- Þonne se deáð úre andwerde líf geendað, Hml. Th. ii. 526, 24. Philippus wearð geendod (cf. Philippus on galgan áhangen wæs, Ap. 41), Ælfc. T. Grn. 15, 28. His líf weard geendod,Bl. H. 113, 8. Sune selenis geendad filio proditionis extincto, Lk. p. 3, 4. Hí nǽron geendode ðurh openne martirdóm, Hml. Th. ii. 544, 29. (3) with the idea of completion, accomplishment, (a) to finish (α) a concrete object :-- Membrað angan timbran Babylonia ..., and Sameramis hié geendade, Ors. 2, 4; S. 74, 11. Torr getimbra ... gif hæfeð tó geendanne (ad perficiendum) ... ne mæhte geendiga (perficere), Lk. L. R. 14, 28, 29. (β) an abstract object (a case, work, course, &c.) :-- Ðætte ic geendigo (perficiam) uoerc his. Jn. L. 4, 34. Hí ne geendiað ná þá spǽce ǽr heora seód bið áfylled they will not finish the case till their purse be filled, Ll. Lbmn. 475, 42. Ic geendode (consummaui) ꝥ weorc ꝥ þú mé sealdest tó dónne, Jn. 17, 4. Erning giendade cursum consummavi, Rtl. 60, 19. Geendadon alle æfter ae Drihtnes, Lk. L. 2, 39. Ꝥte ic geendia ðá uerca, Jn. L. 5, 36. (b) to accomplish, perform, effect a purpose :-- Gemyne þú hwæt þú ámeldodest, hwæt ðú geændadest, Lch. iii. 34, 7. Hé geendode þæt hé gebeótod hæfde ... eall hé ꝥ gefylde, Bl. H. 83, 25. Derneleger geendade adulterium committit, Mk. L. 10, 11. In huelc mæht wundra geendade l dyde (patraret), Mt. p. 18, 19. Þǽr wæs swíþe ryht dóm geendad a very just sentence was there carried out, Ors. 6, 34; S. 292, 2. Ꝥ ungeháten is sceal beón geendod, Bl. H. 189, 27. Fulwuiht ic hafo ... oðð ðá hwíl geendad sié, Lk. L. R. 12, 50. Geendad biðon alle ðá ðe áwriteno sindon, 18, 31. Ealle ðing wǽron geendode ꝥ ꝥ hálige geurit wǽre gefylled, Jn. 19, 28. (c) to make perfect, perfect :-- Geendades lof perfecisti laudem, Mt. L. 21, 16. Giendig geongo míno perfici gressus meos, Rtl. 167, 1. Ꝥ hí sýn geendode on án. Jn. 17, 23. (d) to fulfil :-- Wítgiung geendad prophetia completa, Mt. p. 16, 15. Ꝥ wére geendad (adimpleretur) ꝥ gecueden wæs, Mt. L. 8, 17. (e) to fill :-- Of onwrihnisse geendad revelatione saturatus, Mt. p. 9, 6. Geendad wéron ðá færmo impletae sunt nubtiae, Mt. L. 22, 10. (f) of time :-- Æfter ðon geendad wéron dagas æhto postquam consummati sunt dies octo, Lk. L. R. 2, 21: 4, 2. Geendade, 2, 43. II. intrans. To come to an end :-- Bidden wé Drihten þæs leóhtes þe nǽfre ne geendað, Bl. H. 21, 13. ¶ of persons, to die :-- Þá þe wel geendiað, Hml. Th. ii. 526, 21. Ðá Eádréd geendude, Cht. Th. 203, 11: Hml. S. 6, 350: 25, 155. Gif hé on þám unrihte geendige ... Gif hí on þám geendigan, Ll. Th. ii. 300, 18, 21. Lǽt ús þurh þis fýr geendian, Hml. S. 30, 433: Hml. Th. i. 414, 8. His twá dohtra gewiton fægre geendode (having made a fair end), ii. 298, 10. [O. L. Ger. gi-endión: O. H. Ger. ge-entón consummare, finire, obire.] v. un-geendod. ge-endian

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