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grípan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
§101; §126; §490;
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intrans.
with personal subject,
to grasp at
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  • Heó gráp þá tógeánes, gúðrinc geféng atolan clommum,

      B. 1501.
to take hold of,
lay hands on.
a material object
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  • Heó on mec (

    an onion

    ) grípeð,
      Rä. 26, 7.
  • Þu on beám gripe, blǽda náme on treówes telgum, Gen. 891. (αα)

    to take hold

    of with an instrument :-- Gráp on heofones tóðe,
      Rä. 84, 4.
a non-material object, to seize on, take for use or
as a possession
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  • Him on fultum gráp heofonríces weard

    God took speedy means to help him,

      Gen. 2072.
  • Ðæt hiera nán ne durre grípan suá orsorglíce on ðæt ríce and on ðone láreówdóm

    ne quique culmen arripere regiminis audeant,

      Past. 41, 5.
  • Ðá ðe willað grípan on swelcne folgað

    qui praeesse concupiscunt,

      53, 6.
the subject a thing,
material, to seize on, make attack on,
assail
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  • Mere swíðe gráp on fǽge folc

    ocean fiercely assailed the doomed folk,

      Gen. 1381.
  • Gripon (cf. gáres gripe, An. 187), unfægre under sceát werum scearpe gáras

    sharp spears fixed cruel fangs within the breasts of men,

    2062.
non-material
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  • Gráp heáh þreá on hǽðen cynn,

      Gen. 2545.
trans.
to seize, v. grípend
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  • Grípeð

    capessit, capit sumitque,

      An. Ox. 50, 31.
with personal subject,
the object material
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  • Hí mé tóbeótodon þæt hí mec mit ðám tangum grípan (

    comprehendere

    ) woldon,
      Bd. 5, 12; Sch. 621, 16.
the object non-material
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  • Sé ðe ðás ðing gecneordlíce begǽð, hé grípð þæt behátene ríce,

      Hml. Th. i. 360, 25.
  • Hié grípað ðone cwide ðæs apostoles Paules hiora gídsunge tó fultome

    ad usum suae libidinis instrumentum apostolici sermonis arripiunt,

      Past. 52, 4.
the subject a thing (snare),
to seize, take, catch
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  • Ðet ðú ne sió gripen

    ne capiaris (Dominus custodiet pedem tuum ),

      Kent. Gl. 50.
  • Bióð gribene

    capientur (iniqui in insidiis suis ),

    350.
to seize and carry off
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  • Ic be hondum mæg grípan tó grunde Godes andsacan. Sat. 269.
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v. grippan.
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