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a-gangan

  • verb [ strong ]
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a-gangan, pp. -gangen; -gongen
To go or pass by or over, to happen, befal; præterire, evenire
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  • Ðá wæs agangen, geára hwyrftum, tú hund and þreó

    there were passed, in the circuits of years, two hundred and three,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 1
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    • El. 1
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    • Chr. 974; Th. 224, 33
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    • Edg. 10
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  • Swá hit agangen wearþ

    how it had befallen,

    • Beo. Th. 2473
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    • B. 1234
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  • Wæs ðæs mǽles mearc agongen

    the limit of the time was passed.

    • Cd. 83; Th. 103, 17
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    • Gen. 1719
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    • Exon. 39b; Th. 130, 20
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    • Gú. 441
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v.  a-gongen.
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