geswican

Meaning

1. to stop, quit

   Þā hīe lange fuhton, þā cleopode Lacedaemōnia ealdormann tō Arcadium and bǣdon þæt hīe þæs ġefeohtes ġeswiċen þæt hīe mōsten þā dēadan bebyrġan þe heora folces ofslagene wǣron.

   When they had been fighting for a long time, the leader of the Laconians called out to the Arcadians and asked them to stop the fighting so they could bury the dead of their nation who had been killed.

   c. 900, the Old English Orosius

2. to fail

Conjugation