Ge-ǣþan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-ǣþan

I. to make oath concerning, confirm by oath :-- Hē hit mid ādsware geǣdde and geswōr, þus cwedende: ' Ic . . . geǣde and swerige þurh þone lifigendan Godes sunu . . . ꝥ þās word . . . nǣron of nānes mannes handa gehīwode, ' Nap. 27. Wē lǣrad ꝥ preóst bīsæce ordēl ǣfre ne geǣde (in cases where the validity of the ordeal was disputed a priest was not to swear to the validity ? The previous canon enjoins that ' ǣnig preóst ne stande on leásre gewitnesse '; in the present one the ' bīsæce ordēl' may be ordeals which, it was contended, had been conducted improperly (cf. Gif preóst ordāl misfadige, gebēte ꝥ, Ll. Th. ii. 296, 9), and to the validity of which he was not to swear (falsely)), Ll. Th. ii. 258, 4. II. to administer an oath to, swear a person, in Dict. [O. H. Ger. ge-eiden adjurare; ge-eidemo conjurato.] ge-æþan

Related words: ge-ǣded