geondþencan

Equivalent to ġeond- +‎ þenċan.

• IPA^(key): /je͜ondˈθen.t͡ʃɑn/

ġeondþenċan

1. to think over, consider, contemplate
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     þonne iċ eorla līf · eal ġeondþenċe,
     hū hī fǣrlīċe · flet ofġēafon,

     when I think of all fighters lives,
     how they suddenly left halls,

   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Sē þonne þisne wealsteal · wīse ġeþōhte
     ond þis deorce līf · dēope ġeondþenċeð,
     frōd in ferðe, · feor oft ġemon
     wælsleahta worn, · ond þās word ācwið:

     Then he deeply thinks over this wall-place
     and this dark life with wise thought,
     shrewd in mind, oft recalls the long bygone
     swarm of slaughters, and utters these words:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “geondþencan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.