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expressing motion to a position within a space or thing.
with vetbs of going, bearing, sending,
with dat.
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  • Maria eóde intó Zacharias húse

    Maria intrauit in domum Zachariae,

      Lk. 1, 40: Hml. S. 23, 754.

  • Gáð eów intó ðǽre cyrcan,

      Hml. Th. i.508, 1.

  • Orn hé eft inntó (in-, v. l.) ðǽm temple

    ad tabernaculum recurrit,

      Past. 103, 4.

  • Mid þám mannum þe mé mid fóron intó Denmearcon,

      Cht. E. 230, 3.

  • Hér cuóm se here intó Escanceastre from Werhám,

      Chr. 877; P. 74, 14.

  • Hiene bestæl se here intó Werhám,

      876; P. 74, 7.

  • Þéh þá menn úp ætberstan intó þǽre byrig,

      Ll. Th. i. 286, 2.

  • Hé áscóc hí (

    a viper

    ) intó byrnendum fýre,
      Hml. Th. i. 574, 16.

  • Gif ceorl ceáp forstelð and bireð intó his ærne,

      Ll. Th. i. 138, 15 : 286, 11.

  • Intó þám húse gelǽdan,

      Angl. vii. 6, 51.
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  • Hié hié bestǽlon intó Escanceaster,

      Chr. 876; P. 74, 11.
where motion is not explicitly expressed
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  • Þæt hí onfón eów intó écum eardungstówum (cf. on éce eardungstówe

    in aeterna tabernacula,

      Lk. 16, 9), Hml. Th. i. 334, 28.

  • Hé bepǽhte hí intó his búre,

      Chr. 1015; P. 146, 1.
  • Hí unrǽd rǽddon intó ðissum earde, 1052 ; P. 182, 2.
with special force.
into the possession of
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  • Æfter hiera dæge eft intó ðǽre hálgan stówe,

      C. D. iii. 50, 5.

  • Gá intó Glæstingabyrig,

      128, 7.
  • Hé gesealde twá gegrynd intó Níwan mynstre, 29.

  • Gesylle hé þone þriddan dǽl his teóðunge intó his cyricean . . . Gá ǽlc cyric*-*sceat intó þám ealdan mynstre,

      Ll. Th. i. 262, 12-16 : 308, 6 : 340, 17: 360, 4. (1 a) of political supremacy :--
    Hwílon Wentsǽte hýrdon intó Dúnsǽtan, ac hit gebyreð rihtor intó West-Sexan; þyder hý scylan gafol and gíslas syllan, Ll. Th. i. 356, 18-20.
implying residence as an inmate
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  • ꝥ muneca gehwylc þe úte sý of mynstre . . . gebúge intó mynstre,

      Ll. Th. i. 306, 3.
in reference to non-physical regions
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  • Bescýt se deófol yfel geþóht intó þám men . . . Hé sǽwð mánfullice geþóhtas intó þæs mannes heortan,

      Angl. vii. 28, 260-263.
in reference to a state or condition
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  • Gá intó (cf. on, 23) þínes hláfordes gefeán

    intra in gaudium Domini tui,

      Mt. 25, 21.

  • Áscofene of heofonlicere myrhðe inntó hellicere súsle,

      Hml. Th. i. 540, 4.

  • Intó Godes ríce lǽdan,

      Ll. Th. i. 424, 11.
to a person or thing within a place (perhaps in the following instances in tó, rather than
intó, should be read)
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  • Hí sóna intó þám ciningce eódon,

      Hml. S. 23, 142.

  • Þá eóde Símon intó Neróne,

      Bl. H. 175, 10.

  • Þa heó intó hire móddrian eóde,

      165, 28.

  • Þá óþre bróþra þe þǽr úte wǽron eódan intó him,

      217, 35.

  • Malchus on foreweardan intó his þám hálgan geféran, and se bisceop æfter him inn eóde,

      Hml. S. 23, 752.
marking direction
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  • Hé hæfde þá geatu forworht intó him,

      Chr. 901; P. 92, 8.
marking position,
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  • Þá yldestan þægenas intó seofon burgum,

      Chr. 1015 ; P. 146, 1.

  • Þet hé hine hádian sceolde tó ƀ intó Lundene,

      1048; P. 172, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “in-tó.” 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/53990.

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