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on-hreósan

  • verb
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to fall with violence upon, assail, attack
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  • Onhrióseð, anhriósit, anhrísit

    ingruerit,

      Txts. 69, 1077.
  • Hú longe onhreósað (onáhreóse, Ps. L.) gé on men

    quousque inruitis in homines,

      Ps. Vos. 61, 4.
  • Anhreósaþ

    inruunt (venti in domum,

      Mt. 7, 25), Wrt. Voc. ii. 72, 27.
  • Forhergad mid onhreósendum hægle

    grandine irruente vastata,

      Gr. D. 57, 5.
  • Onhreósendre mettrumnesse hé geneálǽhte tó deáðe

    qui ingruente aegritudine ad mortem veniens,

      195, 20.
  • Cf. á-hreósan.
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