Ge-metgian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-metgian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-metgian
- Add: I. to set a measure or limit to something to prevent excess. (1) the object personal :-- For ðǽm ðæt gé eówer mód gemetgien on ðǽm níðe ut in increpationis zelo se spiritus temperet, Past. 159, 15- (2) the object a thing :-- Sé ðe gemetegað qui moderatur (sermones suos), Kent. Gl. 621. Gif hí þone midmestan weg áredian willaþ, ðonne scylan hí selfe him selfum gemetgian þá winsuman wyrde; þonne gemetgaþ him God þá réþan wyrde, Bt. 40, 3; F. 238, 23-26. Ðǽr ðǽr ðú neóde irsian scyle, gemetiga ðæt ðeáh, Pronecesse est ut magno moderamine correptio temperetur, Past. 159, 4. Temperantia, ꝥ is gemetgung, mid þǽre sceall seó sáwul ealle þing gemætgian, ꝥ hit tó swíþe ne sý, ne tó hwónlíce, Hml. S. I. 161. Þ man sí gesceádwís and gemetigian cunne ge his spréce ge his swígan, Prov. K. 2. Faestene gemetegude (moderata) scylon beón . . . for þí gehwǽde and gemetegud (temperatus) mete flǽsce and sáwle nytlic ys, Scint. 51, 9-11. Beóð on twá healfa þǽre hǽtan twégen dǽlas gemete-gode (the temperate zones), náðor ne tó háte ne tó cealde. . . Beóð twégen dǽlas on twá healfa þám gemetegodum dǽlum (-e, v.l.). . . cealde, Lch. iii. 260, 23-262, 2. II. to mitigate what is excessive, allay, moderate :-- Ðú gimetgadest (mitigasti) légo fýra, Rtl. 100, 20. Þú woldest gemetigan mýnne wóp modum vis habere lacrymas meas, Solil. H. 48, 22. II a. to modify by mixing, temper, prepare :-- Drync mínne mid wópe ic gemetgade (temperabam), Ps. Srt. 101, 10. Þ ýþ 1ígas gemetegie ut unda flammas temperet, Hy. S. 17, 14. Þǽrtó hé sceal beón snoter, þæt hé . . . gemetgige þá snotornysse mid þǽre strengðe, Wlfst. 247, 20. Þeós wyrt wið óman fremaþ on þás ylcan wísan gemetegud, Lch. i. 304, 24. Uætro wíne gimetgado aquas vino temperatas, Rtl. 114, 36. III. to manage properly, regulate, order, dispose :-- Rícsend mæhtig gimetgað giscæfta wrixla rector potens temperat rerum vices, Rtl. 164, 12. Hé gesceafta gesceapen hæfð, and þám æallum stiórð and hí æalle gemetgað, Solil. H. 59, 18. Fægere hé gemetegode þǽra namena gelícnyssa, Angl. viii. 332, 3. Ðset sió hering getrymme and gemetgige ðæs wácmódan mód wið ðá tǽlinge, Past. 213, 2. Hé sceal gemetgian swá cræftelíce his stemne tanta arte vox tem-peranda est, 453, 12. Ríxiende and gemetgende (moderans) worulda ealle, Hy. S. 108, 33. Gimetgende frenans, Rtl. 162, 26. Hió bióð gemetgode temperantur (sortes a Domino), Kent. Gl. 586. IV. to fix the measure or amount of :-- For ðǽre rihtwísnesse hé gereceð ðæs gyltes bóte, and for ðǽre mildheortnesse hé gemetgað þǽre scylde wíte, Ll. Lbmn. 474, ii. Gif hé cann gemetgian hwæt hine anhagige tó sellanne, hwæt hé healdan scyle si bene jus possidendi disponatur, Past. 341, 12. Godes gecorenra wuldor is gemetegod be heora geeanmngum, Hml. Th. i. 446, 9. v. un-gemetgod. ge-metgian