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ofer-wyrcan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to cover by working, to work a covering over something, to overlay
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  • Hé hit him eft hám bebeád on ánum brede áwriten and siððan hit áwriten wæs hé hit oferworhte mid weaxe

    qui omnia civibus suis per tabellas scriptas, et post cera superlitas, enunciabat,

      Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 168, 14.

  • Nǽfre nǽnig man ða lǽstas sylfe ufan oferwyrcean ne mihte, ne mid golde, ne mid seolfre,

      Blickl. Homl. 125, 35.

  • Hús (

    the temple

    ) oferworht mid golde and mid hwítan seolfre,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 35: Blickl. Homl. 125, 25.

  • Hé wæs bebyrged and oferworht syððan (

    a tomb was erected

    ),
      Homl. Skt. i. 21, 19.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ofer-wyrcan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/24290.

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