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ge-horwian

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-horwian, ge-horgian, ge-horian; p. ode.
to defile.
with material filth,
to spit upon
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  • Ongunnun summe efne-gespitta ł gehorogæ (

    conspuere

    ) hine.
      Mk. L. 14, 65.
  • Gehoræd bið (

    conspuetur

    ),
      Lk. L. 18, 32. [Cf.
  • Gé mid horu speówdon on his andwlitan

      , El. 297.
    ]
with moral impurity
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  • Gálnyss gehorwigende

    libido sordidans

    ,
      Hy. S. 5, 5.
  • Gif gé mid synnum gehorgode beóð,

      Nap. 30.
to disgrace, treat shamefully
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  • Ðene hiá mið sceofmum (scomum, R.) miclum gehoruadon (Skeat prints gehornadon, but Cook in his Glossary to the Durham Book gives gehoruadon)

    illum contumeliis affecerunt

    ,
      Mk. L. 12, 4.
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v. horh, horu.
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v.  ge-horian -horwian.
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