Ge-þungen
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-þungen
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-þungen
- Add: I. in respect to age, advanced, mature :-- Geþungen yld and swýðe eald yld ... hærfest and geþungen yld geférlǽcað, and winter and yld áteoriað, Angl. viii. 299, 25-27. Swylce hit cild wǽre ... swylce hé medemre ylde man wǽre, and óðre hwíle swylce hé eald geþungen man wǽre, Wlfst. 99, 15. Cildhád gewít tó cnihtháde, and cnihthád tó geðungenum wæstme, Hml. Th. i. 490, 3. Þysum cildgeongum cynincge ... his foregengan þe geþungene wǽron on yld, Lch. iii. 436, 10. Wé myngiað geþungene and iunge, Angl. viii. 308, 5. II. deserving; emeritus :-- Geþungen emeritus, i. veteranus miles, prefectus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 143, 28. Geþungenan cempan emeritos (i. eximios) milites, An. Ox. 892. III. eminent, distinguished. (1) by rank :-- Hé ealdordóm onféhd ... geþungen on þeóde, Ph. 160. On ealdormonnes húse oððe on óðres geþungenes witan, Ll. Th. i. 106, 6. Biddende his þingunge tó ánum geþungenum ealdormen, Hml. S. 3, 171. Biscepa and óðerra geþungenra witena, Ll. Th. i. 58, 5. Ercebiscop mid manegum óðrum geðungenum witum, Hml. Th. ii. 148, 3. Be abbodum and óðrum geðungenum, R. Ben. 105, 12. Ne mæg se man módigan on geðincðum, for ðan þe fela synd geþungenran, Hml. S. 16, 372. (2) by good qualities, excellent :-- Þú eart beforan Drihtne geþungen, Hml. S. 23 b, 236 note. Þǽr (in heaven) is geþungen þegnweorud, Cri. 751. Geþungene (eminent for scholarship) preóstas, Angl. viii. 305, 8. Æfter geðungenra láreówa trahtnungum, Hml. Th. ii. 2, 8: Hml. S. 3, 151. Ꝥ hí beón þe geþungenran on þǽre fandunge, Angl. vii. 52, 502. (2 a) of things :-- Ic hæbbe þé oferþogen on geþungenre láre, Hml. S. 3, 209. IV. developed so as to be fit for, fitted :-- Þá þe tó ciriclicum háde geþungene wǽron qui ecclesiasticum gradum apte subirent, Bd. 4, 23; Sch. 469, 1.