Ge-þwǽre

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-þwǽre

Add; I. in agreement. (1) of living creatures or things personified, (a) of many, in agreement, at peace with one another :-- Ealle crístene men sceoldon beón swá geþwǽre swilce hit án man wǽre, Hml. Th. i. 272, 24. Þǽr beóð geþwǽre sáwul and líchama, þe nú on ðisum lífe him betweónan winnað, 11. Manega gesceafta beóþ swá geþwǽra ꝥte nó ꝥ án ꝥ hí magon geféran beón, ac heora furþum nán búton óþrum beón ne mæg, Bt. 21; F. 74, 17. Þú hæfst æalle gesceapene gesóme and tó þám geþwǽre þǽt heora nán ne mæg óðerne mid ælle fordón dissonantia usque in extremum nulla est, Solil. H. 5, 14. Habbað æðele tungol emne gedǽled dæg and nihte, sunne and móna swíðe geþwǽre, Met. 29, 37. (a α) in agreement with (dat.) :-- Hié wilniað ðæt wé him geðwǽre sién, Past. 255, 1. (b) of a company :-- Be gehwǽre bróðrǽddene de concordi sodalitate (apium), An. Ox. 231. (c) of a single person :-- For ðám singalan ege ne mæg hé nó weorþan geþwǽre on him selfum, Bt. 39, 12; F. 232, 3. (2) of things :-- Heó hæfð twá ðing, clǽnnysse and módignysse, þe ne magon beón geþwǽre on háligre þeáwfæstnysse, Hml. A. 40, 404. II. peaceable, peaceably disposed, gentle. (1) of living things :-- Oft wíf hine (a dog) wríð; hé him wel héreð, þeówað him geþwǽre, Rä. 51, 6. Ðætte on óðre wísan sine tó manianne ðá geðwǽran (pacati; cf. gesibsuman, 6), Past. 345, 4. Hié wǽron swá geþwǽre and swá gesibsume ꝥ hié ealle forgeáfon þǽm cásere þá fǽhðe þe his mæg hæfde wið hié ǽr geworht, Ors. 6, 4; S. 258, 26. (2) of things, at peace, at rest :-- Streámas eft stille weorðað, ýða geþwǽre, Rä. 3, 15.

Related words: un-geþwǽre. ge-þwære