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part. þēah þe wintra lȳt under burhlocan gebiden
hæbbe Hæreðes dōhtor _although H's daughter had dwelt only a few years in
the castle_, 1929. --2) _to live through, to experience, to expect_ (w.
acc. ): inf. sceal endedæg mīnne gebīdan, _shall live my last day_, 639; ne
wēnde . . . bōte gebīdan, _did not hope . . . to live to see reparation_, 935;
fela sceal gebīdan lēofes and lāðes, _experience much good and much
affliction_, 1061; ende gebīdan, 1387, 2343; pret. hē þæs frōfre gebād,
_received consolation_ (compensation) _therefore_, 7; gebād wintra worn,
_lived a great number of years_, 264; in a similar construction, 816, 930,
1619, 2259, 3117. With gen. : inf.
tō gebīdanne ōðres yrfeweardes, _to await
another heir_, 2453. With depend, clause: inf. tō gebīdanne þæt his byre
rīde on galgan, _to live to see it, that his son hang upon the gallows_,
2446; pret. drēam-lēas gebād þæt hē. . . , _joyless he experienced it, that
he_. . . , 1721; þæs þe ic on aldre gebād þæt ic. . . , _for this, that I, in my
old age, lived to see that_. . . , 1780.