Ge-sirwan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-sirwan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-serwan, -syrwan;

ge-sirwan
p. ede; pp. ed. I. to plot, contrive, conspire, deliberate :-- Se se ðe ða synne gesireþ he who designs the sin, Past. 56, 6; Swt. 435, 6; Hat. MS. Ðonne ne gesirede hit nó ðæt hit þurhtuge swelce synne then would it not have designed to carry out such sin, Swt. 435, 4. Ic gesyrede I plotted, Exon. 72 b; Th. 270, 20; Jul. 468. Ðý ne wricþ Dryhten nó gelíce ða gesiredan synne and fǽrlíce þurhtogenan forðæm sió gesirede syn biþ ungelíc eallum óðrum synnum so the Lord does not punish equally the deliberate sin and the suddenly perpetrated, for the deliberate sin is unlike all other sins, Past. 56, 7; Swt. 435, 13; Hat. MS. II. to furnish with arms, equip :-- Gesyrwed secg an armed man, Byrht. Th. 136, 30; By. 159.

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