Ge-mircian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(-merc-).

ge-mircian

Take here ge-mercian in Dict. , and add: I. to fix by marks, determine :-- Fore gemercade l getáchte praefigit, Mt. p. 15, 7. II. to mark out, distinguish by a mark, designate :-- Téno of tal ðé mercas ic gemercade decent numero tibi titulos designavi, Mt. p. ii. 3. Hé seolf of inwritting gemercad bið ipse ex inscribtione signalur, 4, 5. III. to signify, express :-- Gemercade significans, Lk. p. 2, 7. IV. to f orm by marks, portray :-- Gemercade com-pingens (as if from pingere to paint ?), Mt. p. l, 18. V. to mark, put a mark on. (1) to make the sign of the cross on :-- Ðerh ástrogdnise ðisses wætres gibloedsades and saltes on ðínum nome gimercado (signi-ficatas), Rtl. 117, 12. (2) to seal (lit. or fig.) :-- Sé ðe onfðeð his cýðnisse his gimercade (hath set to his seal, A. V. ; signauit) for ðon God sóðfæst is, Jn. R. L. 3, 33. Ðiosne gimercade Drihten, 6, 27. Gemercadon ðone stán signantes lapidem, Mt. p. 20, 4. VI. to appoint :-- Æfter ðás of-gemercade (designavit) Drihten óðoro hundseofontig tuoege, Lk. L. R. 10, 1. ge-mircian