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  • On gespanest

    inlicias,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 15.
in a good sense
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  • Ðæt hé ðá medwiisan tó máran angienne mid ðǽre líðelican bisnunga gespóne

    quatenus hebetes ad majora conscendere imitatio blanda suaderet,

      Past. 205, 18.
in a bad or an indifferent sense
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  • Hé gespeón him tó ealle Kentingas,

      Chr. 1052 ; P. 178, 24.
  • (O.Sax. ge-spanan : O.H.Ger. ge-spanan illicere, persuadere, hortare.)
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