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dreógan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
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to do, perform; commit, perpetrate
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  • Se þe déð ǽnig unnyt, hé drýhð deófles willan,

      Wlfst. 279, 2.

  • Wá eów þe ofer*-*drenc dreógað,

      46, 15.

  • On gedwimerum þe men on dreógað fela þæs þe hí ná ne sceoldan,

      Ll. Th. ii. 248, 7.

  • Ne dreáh ic náne óþre dǽda, bútan Dryhtne þás lác offrode,

      Hml. S. 9, 64.

  • For þen héðenscipe þe hí drugon,

      Chr. 634; P. 27, 7.

  • God sceáwað hwæt þǽr man dreóge wordes oððe weorces,

      Wlfst. 278, 31.

  • Hǽðenscipe dreóge,

      Ll. Th. ii. 296, 28.

  • Wé lǽrað ꝥ preóstas on ciricþénungum ealle án dreógan (

    there is to be uniformity of practice in the church services

    ),
      254, 23.

  • Godes lof on cyricean dreógan to perform divine service, Cht. Th. 355, 3. I a. to do battle,

    wage

    war :-- Hí gewin úp hófon and þæt drugon oþ hí mid ealle ofslegene wǽron,
      Ors. 1, 4; S. 32, 18.

  • Hió þæt ylce gewin twá and feówertig wintra wæs dreógende,

      1, 2; S. 30, 17.

  • Hí him bróhton ongeán eahta C M féþena and LX M gehorsades folces. And hié lange wǽron þæt dreógende ǽr heora áðer mehte on óþrum sige gerǽcan (

    commisso praelio diu anceps pugna

    ),
      3, 9; S. 134, 7: 1, 14; S. 58, 4: 4, 7; S. 182, 4.
intrans.
to act
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  • Tógénes ǽ dreógendes

    contra legem agentis,

      Ps. L. 70, 4.
to labour
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  • On hú grundleásum seáðe ꝥ mód drígð (cf. swinceð,

      Met. 3, 2),
    þonne hit bestyrmað þisse worulde ungeþwǽrnessa, Bt. 3, 2; S. 9, 11.

  • Nǽnig manna wát hú mín hyge dreógeþ, bysig æfter bócum,

      Sal. 60.
to suffer
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  • Ðæt hié ne fleón yfel, suelce hié hit ádriógan ne mægen, for ðon ðe hit oft góde menn dreógað

    mala nequaquam velut intolerabilia fugiant, quibus plerumque bonos affici non ignorant,

      Past. 263, 14.

  • Seó gedrecednes and ꝥ geswinc and manna fyll and eác horsa þe eall Engla here dreáh,

      Chr. 1056; P. 186, 33.

  • Þás ðing wé drugon

    quae res nos sollicitos tenuit,

      Nar. 13, 26.

  • Ꝥ hié wíte drugon

    ut uterentur supplicio,

      17, 2.

  • For þám ermðum ðe hí drogan,

      Bt. 38, 1; S. 116, 26.

  • Hié mon slóg and hiénde and on óþru land sealde . . . Ispánie þæt ilce wǽron dreógende,

      Ors. 5, 1; S. 214, 15.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. dree.]
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v. þurh-dreógan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dreógan.” 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/42930.

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