Ge-myntan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-myntan

Add: (1) to mean, purpose, design :-- Ðá forlét hé, swá hé gemynte gefyrn, þone woruldlican campdóm, Hml. S. 31, 131. Hé rád þyder hé ǽr gemynt hæfde ad hospitium, quo proposuerat, accessit, Bd. 3, 9 ; Sch. 231, 9. God férde forð, swá hé gemynt hæfde, Gen. 18, 33. (l a) with case :-- Þá gemunde hé hwæt hé ǽr be ðan cilde gemynte he remembered what his intentions about the child had been, Hml. Th. i. 80, 12. (l b) with clause :-- God gemynte ꝥ he wolde þurh ꝥ wæter þá synne ádílegian praedestinavit Deus in aquis abluere peccatum, Angl. vii. 6, 55. (l c) with dat. infin. :-- Hé árǽrde þæt tempel þe his fæder gemynte tó árǽrenne, Hml. Th. ii. 578, 9. Hé gemynte þá máðmas tó genimenne, Hml. S. 25, 769. (l d) construction uncertain :-- Gemynte decreuit (contemnere), An. Ox. 2699. (2) to destine a thing for a person, (a) with dat. of person :-- Ic stihte l ic gemynte gekýþnysse mínum gecorenum disposui testamentum electis meis, Ps. L. 88, 4. Hé sceal þæt wíte ðolian ðe hé ðé gemynte, Hml. Th. i. 372, 16. Tó ðám éðele becuman ðe him se heofenlica Fæder gemynte, ii. 218, 19. Heom þá wítu gemynte wǽron, Hml. S. 23, 112. (b) with prep, tó :-- Þ UNCERTAIN hé gemente tó Abrahame quod disposuit ad Abraham, Ps. L. 104, 9. (3) to destine a person to (tó) a condition, fate, & c. :-- Gif hé hine ǽr tó munucháde gemynte si prius se monachismo addixisset, Ll. Th. ii. 142, 10. (4) construction uncertain :-- Ðæt gemynte irre molitam iram, Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 37. ge-myntan