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be-standan

  • verb [ strong ]
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be-standan, p. -stód, pl. -stódon; pp. -standen
To stand by or near, to stand around, surround, to stand on or upon, occupy, detain; adstare, circumstare, circumdare, detinere
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  • Him bestande man

    adstet quis ei

    • L. Alf. P. 48
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 384, 35.

  • Abraham híg bestód on ða ealdan wísan

    Abraham stood by her after the old custom,

    • Gen. 23, 2.

  • Fæderas and móddru bestandaþ heora bearna líc

    fathers and mothers stand around the corpses of their children,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 124, 17.

  • Ðá bestódon ða Iudeas hyne útan

    circumdederunt ergo eum Judæi,

    • Jn. Bos. 10, 24
      • :
    • Byrht. Th. 133, 51
      • ;
    • By. 68.

  • Ahrede me æt ðám ðe me habbaþ útan bestanden

    redime me a circumdantibus me,

    • Ps. Th. 31, 8.

  • Ðæs wíf wæs hú hugu xl daga mid grimre ádle bestanden

    cujus conjux quadraginta ferme diebus erat acerbissimo languore detenta

    • Bd. 5, 4
      • ;
    • S. 617, note 6.
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v.  be-stód.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-standan.” 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/3987.

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