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on-secgan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to sacrifice, offer
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  • Ic onsecge

    sacrificabo,

      Ps. Surt. 53, 8.

  • Ic ðé tifer onsecge,

      Ps. Th. 65, 12.

  • Gif man medmycles hwæthwega deóflum onsægþ (

    immolaverit

    ),
      L. Ecg. C. 32; Th. ii. 156, 15.

  • Hé lác onsægde,

      Cd. Th. 107, 21; Gen. 1792.

  • Hé gild onsægde,

      172, 11; Gen. 2842.

  • Hé lác onsægde (

    of Christian service

    ),
      Exon. Th. 168, 28; Gú. 1084.

  • Mesiane noldon ðæt Læcedemonia mægdenmenn mid heora ofreden and heora godum onsægden,

      Ors. 1, 14; Swt. 56, 16.

  • Hié Gode eáðmódlíce lác onsægdon,

      Blickl. Homl. 201, 14.

  • Onsecggaþ gé him mid sóðfæstnesse wæstmum,

      41, 10.

  • Ne yld ðú ðæt ðú ðám myclan godum mid ús onsecge

    diis magnis sacrificare ne differas,

      Bd. 1, 7; S. 477, 36.

  • Se ðe godgeldum onsæcge ofer God ánne,

      L. Alf. 32; Th. i. 52, 12.

  • Gif ðú onsecgan nelt sóðum godum,

      Exon. Th. 253, 3; Jul. 174.

  • Ðu scealt Isaac mé onsecgan,

      Cd. Th. 172, 30; Gen. 2852.

  • Ðǽm godum onsægdnisse onsæcgan

    victimis placare,

      Nar. 20, 5.

  • Ongunnan heora bearn blótan feóndum, sceuccum onsæcgean

    immolaverunt filios suos, et filias suas daemoniis,

      Ps. Th. 105, 27.

  • Onsægd síe

    turificatur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 51.
  • [Cf. O. H. Ger. insaket litat; insaket delibatus; insaget pim delibor, sacrificio.]
to deny, renounce, abjure (
O. H. Ger. antsagén renunciare, abjurare, excusare: Ger. ent-sagen)
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  • Gif mon síe dumb oððe deáf geboren ðæt hé ne mǽge his synna onsecggan (-sæcgan,

      MS. H.; ætsacan, MS. B.) ne
    andettan, béte se fæder his misdǽda, L. Alf. pol. 14; Th. i. 70, 15.
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v.  an-secgan on-sagu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-secgan.” 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/24731.

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