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an-sýn

  • noun [ feminine ]
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an-sýn, -sin, -sién, -sión; on-, e; f. [an, sýn sight, vision] .
a face, countenance; facies, vultus
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  • His ansýn sceán swá swá sunne

    facies ejus resplenduit sicut sol,

    • Mt. Bos. 17, 2
      • .

  • Befóran ðíne ansýne

    ante faciem tuam,

    • Lk. Bos. 7, 27
      • .

  • Gúþlác wæs wlitig on ansýne

    Guthlac was handsome in countenance,

    • Guthl. 2 ; Gdwin. 18, 3
      • .

  • God ableów on his ansýne líflícne blǽd

    God blew into his face the breath of life.

    • Hexam. ii; Norm. 18, 25
      • .

  • Fleóþ his ansýne

    fugiant a facie ejus,

    • Ps. Th. 67, 1
      • .

  • Gedó ðæt hiora ansýn áwa sceamige

    imple facies eorum ignominia,

    • 82, 12
      • .

  • Ansýn ðín

    vultus tuus,

    • 88, 1. 4
      • .

  • Ic bidde ðínre ansýne

    deprecatus sum faciem tuam,

    • 118, 58
      • .

  • Ansýn ýwde

    shewed his countenance,

    • Beo. Th. 5660
      • ;
    • B. 2834
      • .
a view, aspect, sight, form, figure; aspectus, conspectus, visus, visio, species, forma, figura
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  • Fæger ansýne

    fair in aspect,

    • Runic pm. II
      • ;
    • Hick. Thes. i. 135
      • ;
    • Kmbl. 341, 19
      • .

  • Ðín mód wæs abísgod mid ðære ansíne ðissa leásena gesǽlþa

    thy mind was occupied with the view of these false goods.

    • Bt. 22, 2 ; Fox 78, 10
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  • For ðínre ansýne

    in conspectu tuo,

    • Ps. Th. 68, 20: 108, 14
      • .

  • Se Hálega Gást astáh líchamlícre ansýne, swá án culfre

    descendit Spiritus Sanctus corporali specie, sicut columba,

    • Lk. Bos. 3, 22
      • :
    • Cot. 74
      • .

  • Ansién ðyses middan-geardes

    figura hujus mundi,

    • Past. 51, 2
      • .
a thing to be looked upon, a sight; spectaculum
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  • Ðisse ansýne Alwealdan þanc gelimpe

    for this sight may thanks to the Almighty take place,

    • Beo. Th. 1860
      • ;
    • B. 928
      • .

  • Seó ansín wearþ mycel wundor Rómánum

    the sight was a great wonder to the Romans,

    • Ors. 6, 7; Bos. 120, 3
      • .
a view or sight producing desire or longing, and hence,—a desire of anything, want or lack of anything; desiderium, defectus
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  • Swá eorþan biþ ansýn wæteres

    sicut terra sine aquâ,

    • Ps. Th. 142, 6
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. ansiun, f. aspectus
:
Plat. anseen, n
:
Dut. aanzien, n
:
Ger. ansehen, n. aspectus, forma
:
M.H.Ger. ansiune, n
:
O. H. Ger. anasiuni, n.
]
Linked entries
v.  and-sýn an-sién an-sín an-sión ehsýne on-seón on-sién.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “an-sýn.” 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/1954.

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