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tígan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
tígan, p. de
To tie,
literal
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  • Valerianus hét beheáfdian on Ypolitus gesihðe ealle his híwan, and hine sylfne hét tígan be dám fótum tó ungetemedra horsa swuran,

      Homl. Th. i. 432, 33.
figurative
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  • Nú ðú miht gehýran, hú ðes dǽl (

    the conjunction

    ) tígþ ða word tógædere,
      Ælfc. Gr. 44; Zup. 258, 10.
Etymology
[Heo wolden þa ban alle teien (tiȝe, 2nd MS.) togadere, Laym. 20997. Iteied (-tiȝed, 2nd MS.) tosomne, 25972. He teide ane clot to hire, A. R. 140, 7. Is þe latere dole euer iteied (-teiȝet) to ðe vorme, 14, 2. Tached oþer tyȝed, Allit. Pms. 14, 464. Kynges shulde taken transgressores and tyen hem faste, Piers P. 1, 96.]
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v. ge-, on-, un-tígan.
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