Ge-méde
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-méde
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-méde
- Substitute: ge-méde, es; pl. (used sometimes with singular meaning) -médu ; n. That which is agreeable to one (gen.) or in conformity with one's will, pleasure :-- Bútan sum heora freónda þá land furþor, on þæs arcebisceopes geméde (as may be agreeable to the archbishop), ofgán mage, Cht. Th. 355, 23. [Gif áni land sý out of þan bissopríche gedón, ich wille ꝥ hit cume in ongeán, óðer ꝥ man hit ofgó on hise gemóð swó man wið him bet finde mage si quid inde fuerit sublatum, volumus quod revocetur, vel quod aliter ei satisfaciat, 387, 23.] Se cyng gebécte ꝥ land Æðelstáne . . . Æfter þám getídde ꝥ Ecgferð gebohte bóc and land æt Æðelstáne on cynges gewitnesse and his witena, swá his gemédo wǽron [as was agreeable to the king.i. e. the king was satisfied with the transaction), 208, 9. Eádgár cyning beád ǽlcon his þegna þe énig land on þan lande hafde, ꝥ hí hit ofeódon be þes biscopes gemédon (in conformity with the bishop's will) oððe hit ágefon. 295, 12. Ðǽr þá eádigan fundon mid ealra gemédum (to the satisfaction of all) þás dómas, Ll. Th. i. 36, 12. Nó hér cúðlícor cuman ongunnon lindhæbbende; ne gé leáfnesword gúðfremmendra gearwe ne wisson, mága gemédu (what their pleasure might be), B. 247. [Themu manne te gimódea for the satisfaction of the man, Hél. 3207. O. H. Ger. ge-muati what is agreeable.] See next word. ge-mede