Ge-wífian

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wífian
Substitute : (1) absolute , to marry, take a wife :-- Æfter heora gewunan hé gewífode. Hml. A. 95, 105. Hé sǽde ꝥ hé gewiifad hæfde se uxoreo uinculo conligatumfvisse respondit, Bd. 4, 22 ; Sch. 456, 3. Manige habbaþ genóg gesǽlilíce gewífod ille nuptiisfelix, Bt. 11, 1 ; F, 32. 5. (2) with on (with dat.), to marry a person :-- Hé on his ágenre swyster gewífode, Wlfst. 106, 13. Gewífede, Sal. K. p. 121, 30. Hé gewífode on ðæs cyninges dehter, Hml. Th. i. 478, 23. Ne on gehálgodre nunnan. . . ǽnig crísten man ne gewífige ǽfre, Ll. Th. i. 318, 18 : Cht. E. 231, 14. Gif hwá his rihtǽwe forlǽte, and on óðran wife gewífige, Ll. Th. ii. 300, 24. Þæt cniht þurhwunige on his cnihtháde oð þæt hé on rihtre ǽwe gewífige, Wlfst. 304, 21. ꝥ ǽnig crísten mann binnan .vi. manna sibfæce on his ágenan cynne ǽfre ne gewifie, Ll. Th. i. 364, 23: 318, 13. (2 a) with reflex, dat. :-- Hí gewifodon him on þám hǽðenum mǽdenum duxerunt uxores filias eorum, Jud. 3. 6. ge-wifian
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