Ge-libban, -lifian, -leofian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-libban, -lifian, -leofian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-libban, -lifian, -leofian
- p. -lifde, -lifode (-leof-) To live. I. to be alive:--Mið ðý gehérdon ꝥte gelifde and geséne wǽre, Mk. L. 16, 11. to pass life under specified conditions:--Sume on hǽðenscipe gelifdon, Ll. Th. ii. 366, 13. Gif swá biþ geleofad si sic vivitur, Ps. L. 185 a, 16. III. to escape spiritual death:--Ðis dó ꝥte ðú gelifige, Lk. L. 10, 28. IV. trans. (1) to have as part of one's life, to experience:--Ne ondrǽd ðú ðé deáð tó swíðe; ne geleofað man náht miriges ðá hwíle ðe mon deáð ondrǽt life hath no mirth while death is feared, Proto get by living, to live to do:--Hé cyng beón sceolde, gif hé hit gelifode he should have been king, if he had lived to do it, Chr. 1093; P. 228, 11. Fulne ende þínes lífes þú hæfst gelifd plenam etatis finem habes, Nar. 30, 11. [O. H. Ger. ge-lében to experience, live to see. Cf. Ger. er-leben.? ge-libban