† i-ˈsee, v. Obs.
Forms: see see v.
[OE. ᵹeséon, f. ᵹe-, i-1 + séon to see; = Goth. gasaihwan, OHG. gasehan, MHG. gesehen.]
trans. To see, behold.
| Beowulf (Z.) 221 Ða liðende land ᵹesawon. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 666 (Gr.) Ic mæᵹ heonon ᵹeseon hwær he sylf siteð. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 17 Maneᵹa..rihtwise ᵹewilnudon þa þing to ᵹe-seonne [Lindisf. ᵹesea] þe ᵹe ᵹeseoþ and hiᵹ ne ᵹe-sawon [Hatt. G. ᵹe-seaᵹen]. Ibid. Mark viii. 24 Ic ᵹe-seo [Lindisf. ᵹeseom, Rushw. ᵹisiom] men swylce treow gangende. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 123 Alswa deð mahȝe fisce þe isið þet es, and ne isihȝ na þene hoc þe sticað on þan ese. a 1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 197 Ful wel þu me iseie þauh þu stille were. c 1305 St. Dunstan 86 in E.E. Poems (1862) 36 He ne miȝte iseo nomore. c 1315 Shoreham 107 Thys may ech man ysy. c 1320 Cast. Love 1247 Me may..I-syn that he is God by his dede. 1340 Ayenb. 81 Uayrhede þet þe eȝe of þe bodye yzyȝþ. Ibid. 185 Yziȝ and þench huo yefþ þane red. c 1369 Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 205 Ye shul me neuer on lyve y-se. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 345 [Plato] miȝt nouȝt i-see Ieremyas. ? a 1400 S.E. Leg. (MS. Bodl. 779) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXII. 314/91 So þou I-syxt I-wis. |