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Middle English
Verb
macian
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of maken
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *makōn.
Pronunciation
Verb
macian
- to make
- to cause
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
Heo macað reaflac and unrihte domas stala and leasunga and forsworennyssa. Heo is helle ġelic forðan þe hi habbað butu unafylledlice grædignysse þæt hi fulle ne beoð næfre.- ...it causeth rapine, and unrighteous judgements, thefts, and leasings, and perjuries. It is like unto hell, because they both have insatiable greediness, so that they can never be full.
- to act
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
...and þam bisceope marine and þām yldestan mannum be endebyrdnysse rehton hu hi hit macedon on decius caseres tīman...- ..and related in order to the bishop Marinus and to the chiefest men how they had acted in the time of Decius the emperor...'
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
...ac ic þurh nan þincg ongytan ne mæg hu me sy þus gelumpen þæt ic hit þus macige.- ...but I cannot at all understand how it has thus happened to me that I act thus.'
- to bring about
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
Se feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu.- The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.
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- Middle English: maken, macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn; macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe