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wafian

  • verb [ weak ]
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wafian, p. ode
To look with wonder, be amazed,
absolute
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  • Ic wafige

    stupeo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 26, 2; Zup. 154, 13.
  • Wafede

    obstupuit,

      Hpt. Gl. 510, 23.
  • Hæleð wafedon,

      Cd. Th. 182, 20 ; Exod. 78.
  • Ðá wunode hé wundriende and wafiende

    cum quasi adtonitus maneret,

      Bd. 4, 3 ; S. 568, 4.
  • Ðæt ðú gange wafiende for hira þinge and ege

    sis stupens ad terrorem eorum,

      Deut. 28, 34.
  • Ðæt folc wafigende him sáh onbútan,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 650.
  • Wafiendre wæferséne

    theatrali (visibili) spectaculo,

      Hpt. Gl. 411, 77.
  • Hí swíðe wundredon and wafiende cwǽdon,

      Lchdm. iii. 436, 7.
with gen.
to wonder at, be amazed at
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  • Hwá

    ne wafaþ ðæs, ðonne se fulla móna wyrþ ofertogen mid þióstrum ? . . . Ðises hí wundriaþ,
      Bt. 39, 3 ; Fox 214, 29.
  • Heora dysige men wafiaþ,

      14, 2; Fox 44, 3.
  • Eówre fýnd wafiaþ eówre

    stupebunt super ea inimici vestri,

      Lev. 26, 32.
  • Ealle men wafedon his ánes. Homl. Skt. i. 23, 616.
  • Ða ðe Símónes wundordǽda wafodan,

      Blickl. Homl. 173, 22.
  • Hwá ne mæge wafian ǽlces steorran? Met. 28, 44.
  • Hæfde hé mé gebunden mid ðære wynsumnesse his sanges, ðæt ic his wæs swíþe wafiende

    cum me stupentem carminis mulcedo defixerat

    ,
      Bt. 22, 1; Fox 76, 7. (2a) case uncertain :--
    Hwæt is ðeós wundrung ðe gé wafiaþ, Exon. Th. 6, 25; Cri. 89.
with prep. v. wafung,
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  • Duguð wafade on ðære fǽmnan wlite,

      Exon. Th. 252, 13 ; Jul. 162.
with a clause
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  • þeóda wlítaþ, wundrum wafiaþ, hú seó wilgedryht wildne weorþiaþ,

      Exon. Th. 222, 1 ; Ph.342.
  • Wafiaþ weras, ðæt . . . ,

      493, 24; Rä. 81, 86.
  • Hwá is ðæt ne wafige ðæt . . . ,

      Met. 28, 18.
  • Hwá is ðæt ne wafige (cf. hwá ne wundraþ ðæs, ðæt . . . ,

      Bt. 39, 3 ; Fox 214, 25) hú . . . , 28, 31.
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v.  wæfre wæfþ.
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