Ge-restan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-restan

Add: -ræstan. I. intrans. (1) to repose on a couch, lie down :-- Ic neapiu and gerestu obdormiam et requiescam, Ps. Srt. 4, 9. Se ðe gehrestað qui recumbit, Lk. L. 22, 27. Mom'ge synnfulle gereston (-ræston, L. , discumbebant), Mk. R. 2, 15. Geræstun, Mt. L. 9, 10. p he ne mæge þonne hé cymeþ to his wife hyre mid gerestan, Lch. i. 364, 3. (l a) to rest in the grave, lie buried :-- Marcus geresteð Alexandrea, Rtl. 195, 33; 196, 9, and often. Gerestes, 196. 13. Lucas gereste in þǽr byrig Lucas requievit Bochtia, 196, l, and often. (l b) of animals, to lie on the ground :-- Ic scíp míno giresta dóm ego oves meas accubare faciam, Rtl. 10, 3. (2) to desist or refrain from exertion :-- Ic fligu and gerestu, Ps. Srt. 54, 7- (2 a) of things, to cease, not be active :-- Gerestað conqviescunt (jtvrgia), Kent. Gl. 997. (3) to be at ease, remain undisturbed, dwell :-- Hwelc eardað in selegescote ðínurn, oððe hwelc geresteð in munte ðínum ?, Ps. Srt, 14, Monige cymas and gehrestas (wuniað, W. S. ) mið Abraham in ric heofna, Mt. L. 8, ii. Hierusalem . . . in þé sáwle sóðfæstra simle gerestað, Cri. 53. Flégende heofnes girestun (gehræston, L. ) on telgum his, Lk. 13, 19. On sibbe gerestian he gewunad, Scint. II, 19. (4) of position, to rest on :-- Þa se gást gereste on him, hig witegodon, Num. ii. 25. (5) to lie or lean upon, support oneself on :-- Ðe ofer brést Drihtnes geræste, Mt. p. 8, 17. Gireste (giræsti, L.), Jn. R. 21, 20. (6) to remain confident :-- Flesc mín geresteð in hyhte, Vs. Srt. 15", 9. II. reflexive, to rest oneself. (1) to repose in sleep :-- Gedó þæt ic m ILLEGIBLE te slápan and me gerestan, Ps. Th. 4, 9. (l a) of the sleep of death, to die, fall on sleep :< -- Her lohs hine gereste in Effesia (cf. he John eode cucu and gesund into his byrgene, Hml. Th. i. 74, 25, Chr. 100; P. 9, 13. (2) to refresh by resting :-- Gan we secan fire gesthus i> we magon us gerestan. Ap. Th. 18, 16. (3) where labour is desisted or refrained from :-- Oðer. resten-dæg . . . is þæt éce líf, . . . on þám wé us gerestað écelíce, Hml, Th. ii. 208, 6. He hine gereste on þone seofoðan dæg. Ll. Th. i. 44, 13. (33) to desist from exertion, labour, &c. (gen.) :-- Hié heora gefeohta hie gerestan, þéh hié þæs hungres and þæs moncwealmes ne mehte cessatum est a praeliis, cessatum tamen a mortibus non est, Ors. 2, 4; S. 70, 9. (4) to be at ease, remain quiet, dwell, lodge :-- Hwá eardað on þínum temple, odðe hwá mot hine gerestan on þǽm hálgan munte 1, Ps. Th. 14, l. ' Hǽt him findan hwár hé hine mæge wurðlícost gerestan (where he may lodge most honourably), ' . . . Apollonius onféng þáre wununge ðe hym betǽht wæs. Ap. Th. 18, 22-25. (4a) ILLEGIBLE adverbial complement :-- Ðonne gerest ðæt mod hit orsorglice on ðǽre fortruwunga mens in sui mnfidentia secura requiescit, Past. 463, 10. III. trans. (1) to give rest to a person, cause to cease or refrain from work :-- Gerested feriatus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 108, 41. Geresteð, 33 56- Gerestad feriatus, pausatus, quietus, 148, 3. (2) to lodge. Cf. II. 4 :-- Gyf man mete ja hé weorðlíce gerestod slo, god í> byð. Lch. iii. 174, 32. [O. H. Ger. ge-resten requiescere, cessare, paitsare.] ge-restan