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for-hergian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
for-hergian, -heregian, to -hergianne; part, -hergiende, -hergende; p. ode, ade, ede; pp. od, ad, ed
To lay waste, destroy, ravage, devastate, plunder; vastāre, devastāre, depŏpŭlāre
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  • Ne wile he ealle ða rícu forsleán and forheregian

    will he not slay and destroy all the kingdoms?

    • Bt. 16, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 50, 3.

  • Mid ðý se ylca cyning gedyrstelíce here lǽdde to forhergianne Pehta mǽgþe

    idem rex, cum tĕmĕre exercĭtum ad vastandam Pictōrum prōvinciam duxisset,

    • Bd. 4, 26
      • ;
    • S. 602, 16.

  • Forhergiende

    depŏpŭlans,

    • 1, 15
      • ;
    • S. 483, 44.

  • Forhergende,

    • 4, 7
      • ;
    • S. 574, 30.

  • Ceadwala eft forhergode Cent

    Ceadwalla again ravaged Kent,

    • Chr. 687
      • ;
    • Erl. 43, 2: 1000
      • ;
    • Erl. 137, 2.

  • Ecgfriþ Norþan-Hymbra cyning sende wered and fyrd on Hibernia Scotta eálonde, and hí ða unscæððendan þeóde, and symble Angelcynne ða holdestan earmlíce forhergodon

    Ecgfrid rex Nordanhymbrōrum misso Hĭberniam exercĭtu vastāvit mĭsĕre gentem innoxiam et nātiōni Anglōrum ămīcissĭmam,

    • Bd. 4, 26
      • ;
    • S. 602, 7.

  • Ceadwalla and Mul Cent and Wieht forhergedon

    Ceadwalla and Mul ravaged Kent and Wight,

    • Chr. 686
      • ;
    • Erl. 40, 25.

  • Féng to ríce Honorius, twám geárum ǽr Róma burh abrocen and forhergad wǽre

    Honorius succeeded to the sovereignty, two years before the city Rome was broken into and devastated,

    • Bd. 1, 11
      • ;
    • S. 480, 10.

  • Seó hreównes ðæs oft cwedenan wóles feor and wíde eall wæs forheregod and fornumen

    tempestas sæpe dictæ clādis lāte cuncta depŏpŭlans,

    • 4, 7; S. 574, 30, MS. B.

  • Hí forhergode wǽron

    they were plundered,

    • Chr. 1013
      • ;
    • Erl. 149, 19.
Etymology
[
Ger. ver-heeren to destroy, lay waste.
]
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v.  hergian.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “for-hergian.” 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/11528.

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