gebiegan

• ġebīġan, ġebȳġan

ġe- +‎ bīeġan

• IPA^(key): /jeˈbi͜yː.jɑn/

ġebīeġan (transitive)

1. to bend or curve
2. to turn (to or away from something)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Marcus sē godspellere be godes dihte ġefōr to Aegipta lande and þǣr lǣrde þæt folc and to fulluhte ġebiġde frām þām fūlan hæþensċype.

     Mark the Evangelist went to Egypt by God's order and there taught its people and turned its people towards baptism and away from foul heathenism.

3. to humiliate, subdue
4. (grammar) to inflect
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

     Ealle naman...bēoþ ġebīgede on fīf declinungum.

     All nouns...are inflected in five declensions.

• ġebīeġednes