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ymb-settan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ymb-settan, p. te.
to set round, put round, surround
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  • Hé ymbseteþ útan líc and feþre on healfe gehware hálgum stencum,

      Exon. Th. 212, 3 ; Ph. 204.

  • Beád hé út scypfyrde and landfyrde, and ðæt land eall útan embsette,

      Chr. 1072; Erl. 210, 31.

  • Giarn án and gifylde copp mid æcede ymbsette and tó róde ða drinca salde him

    currens unus et implens spongiam aceto circumponensque calamo potum dabat ei

    ,
      Mk. Skt. Rush. Lind. 15, 36.

  • Ymbsetton (ymsettun, Rush.) ł ymbuundun

    circumponentes

    ,
      Jn. Skt. Lind. 19, 29.

  • Salomones reste wæs mid weardum ymbseted,

      Blickl. Homl. 11, 16.

  • Ymbseted mid ðǽm wágum his misdǽda,

      L. E. I. 32 ; Th. ii. 430, 14.

  • Ymbsett mid fágnesse

    circumdata varietate

    ,
      Ps. Lamb. 44, 10.

  • Mid hwilcum feóndum heó ymbset bið,

      Homl. Th. i. 410, 9.

  • Emset

    glomeratus, circumseptus

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 422, 47.

  • Ða heargas ðara deófolgylda mid heora hegum ðe hí ymbsette wǽron

    fana idolorum cum septis quibus erant circumdata

    ,
      Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 39.
to plant with something. v. ymb-seten
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  • Ic embsette

    consero

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 133, 56.

  • Eá mid treówum ymbset

    amnis

    , i.
      54, 16.
Etymology
[How Iuus Iesu oft umsette (bisette, v. l.), C. M. 195. Alle umset with enmys, Pr. C. 1250. O. H. Ger. umbi-sezzen.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ymb-settan.” 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/37195.

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