macian

Meaning

1. to make or create:; to perform or carry out (a miracle)

2. to make or create:; to form (a word by inflection)

3. to make or create:; to prepare (especially food or a feast)

4. to cause or bring about

   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.

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"

5. to act or behave

   ...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"

6. to confer or grant

7. to treat; to behave towards

8. to fare or perform

Conjugation