Ge-feccan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-feccan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-feccan
- Substitute: ge-feccan, -fecgan to fetch, (1) to go in quest of and bring back, (a) the object a person :-- Hé him hét tó wífe gefeccan Cleopatron Cleopatram sibi occurrere imperavit, Ors. 5, 13; S. 246, 1: Hml. S. 8, 9. Héht Neron Petrus and Paulus tó þissum wǽferseónum gefeccean, Bl. H. 187, 15. Gefæccan, Hml. S. 2, 197. Hé mæg þá sáwle of sinnihte gefeccan, Sal. 69. (b) the object a thing :-- Hát unmǽlne mon gefeccean healfne sester yrnendes wæteres, Lch. iii. 10, 31. (2) to go and get what one seeks, obtain, get :-- Hé woldegefeccan þá lytlan and gebringan úp tó his ríce, Hml. Th. i. 138, 5. Nán Crísten mann ne sceal his hǽle gefeccan búton æt ðám Scyppende, 470, 20. Swá þá sculon þe hiora ǽfengifl on helle gefeccean sculon tamquam apud inferos coenaturi, Ors. 2, 5; S. 86, 2. Hé wolde þæs beornes beágas gefecgan, By. 160.