Ge-irman
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-irman
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-irman
- Add: I. to make wretched, afflict. (1) the object a person:--Genǽt, geyrmþ conterat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 135, 5. Gé beóð gesealde feóndum tó gewealde, ðá eów geyrmað and swíðe geswencað, Wlfst. 133, 9. Þæt wíf hire ágenne teám mid wyriunge geyrmde, Hml. Th. ii. 34, 31. Ðá underðiéddan mon sceal lǽran ðæt hié elles ne sién genǽt ne geirmed (-iermed, ) subditos non subjectio conterat, Past. 189, 16. Ealle ðá gódan fǽrlíce geyrmde hreówlíce wurdon, Hml. S. 23, 24. Hí beóð geyrmede ðurh unwísne cyning on manegum ungelimpum, Hml. Th. ii. 320, 3. (2) the object a thing:--Byð his eard geyrmed ǽgðer ge on heregunge ge on hungre . . ., O. E. Hml. i. 303, 14. II. to make poor:--Geyrmde exsumptuavit, pauperavit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 37. [Cf. O. Sax. gi-armód(applied to Lazarus).] v. irman. ge-irman