Ge-hīrsumian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-hīrsumian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-hīrsumian
- Take here ge-hȳrsumian in Dict. , and add: I. to obey (1) a person :-- Gif hī gehīrsumedon heora Scippende on riht, Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 7. Ūs ne hēt nā se Hǣlend him gehȳrsumian ūs tō forwyrde, Hml. A. j, 124. Þā; būrþēnas ābudon þǣre cwēne þæs cyninges hǣse, ac heó hit forsōc and nolde gehȳrsumian him to his willan, 93, 43: Ll. Th. i. 194, 19. (2) a command, law, &c. :-- Gehȳrsumie pareat, i. obediat (praecepto), An. Ox. 296. Hī hine hālsedon ꝥ hē gehȳrsumode þæs engles wordum. Hml. A. 124, 263. Gif gē willad mīnum bebodum gehȳrsumian, Hml. Th. i. 86, 34. II. to obey a master, serve, be a servant to UNCERTAIN te huæd ūsum gihērsumaiad hērnise ut quid nostro ministratur officio, Rtl. 106, 22. God sylf behēt his hālgum þēnum þe on clǣnum mægdhāde him gehȳrsumiad on his heofenlican hūse, Hml. A. 41, 424. Ðē ūe gihērsumiga tibi famulemur, 15, 32. Gehȳrsumiendre l þeówiendre uernacula, i. famulante, An. Ox. 288.