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of violent movement
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  • Férde eall seó heord myclum onrǽse (impetu) niwel on þá sǽ

    all the herd went with a great rush headlong into the sea,

      Mt. 8, 32.
of hostile movement.
by a living creature,
attack, assault
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  • Án hrem bewerode ꝥ líc . . . and þá réðan deór áflígde mid his onrǽsum,

      Hml. S. 37, 243.
of destructive movement by a thing,
material
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  • Ongan seó bryne beón gebíged in hí sylfe, efne swá swá mid bígnesse his ágnes onrǽses (

    sui impetus),

      Gr. D. 48, 7.

  • Onrǽs

    inruptionem (diluuii),

      An. Ox. 2480.
non-material
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  • Gálnysse onraes byrnende innoþe gefylledum æthabban ys unmihtelic

    libidinis impetum ardentem ventre satiato retinere est impossibile,

      Scint. 57, 8.
of military operations,
invasion, incursion, attack of a country
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  • Ðá fǽrlíce wearð þæs fyrlenan leódscipes onrǽs into Gallias,

      Hml. S. 31, 95.

  • Fram onrǽse

    ab incursu,

      Ps. L. 90, 6.

  • Ofslagene wurdon fela þæs folces mid fǽrlicum onrǽsum,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 44.
an attack, assault on a body of troops
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  • On þám forman onrǽse hé áflígde Ualentinianum,

      Hml. S. 31, 646.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-rǽs.” 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/56606.

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