hwearfian
- verb [ weak ]
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Ic nú giet hwearfige mé self on ðǽm ýðum mínra scylda
adhuc in delictorum fluctibus versor,
- Past. 65, 7 ;
- Swt. 467, 22 .
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Ǽlc gesceaft hwearfaþ on hire selfre swá swá hweól and tó ðam heó swá hwearfaþ ðæt heó eft cume ðǽr heó ǽr wæs
every creature turns on itself as a wheel, and it so turns to the end that it may come again where it was before:
repetunt proprios quæque recursus, redituque suo singula gaudent
,- Bt 25; Fox 88, 32: Bt. Met. Fox 13, 150; Met. 13, 75.
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Hé biþ fremede freán ælmihtigum englum ungelíc ána hwearfaþ
he shall be a stranger to the almighty Lord, unlike angels, alone shall he wander,
- Salm. Kmbl. 70 ;
- Sal. 35.
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Drihtnes stíge hwearfaþ aa wísra gewyrdum
Ascension-day ever changes according to the rules of the learned,
- Menol. Fox 131 ;
- Men. 65 .
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Wé hwearfiaþ heánlíce
we wander abjectly,
- Exon. 13 a ;
- Th. 23, 21 ;
- Cri. 372 .
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Hálige englas ðǽrábútan hwearfiaþ
holy angels hover round about the place,
- L. C. E. 4 ;
- Th. i. 360, 34 .
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Ðú wást hú ða woruldsǽlþa hwearfiaþ ... hwí ne hwearfost ðú mid him
thow knowest how worldly blessings change ... why dost thou not change with them?
- Bt. 7, 2 ;
- Fox 18, 6 .
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Swá swá on wǽnes eaxe hwearfiaþ ða hweól
as the wheels turn on the axle of a waggon,
- 39, 7 ;
- Fox 220, 32.
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Gúþ hwearfode
the battle rolled on
[or could guþ here be taken as a person, one of the Valkyrias, and hwearfode = hover about, as in the passage above, L. C. E. 4 ?],
- Cd. 149 ;
- Th. 187, 29 ;
- Exod. 159 .
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Fana hwearfode on sceafte
the banner waved on its staff,
- Bt. Met. Fox 1, 20 ;
- Met. 1, 10 .
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Hwæt is ðé ðæt ðú ðǽrmid ne ne hwearfige
why shouldest thou not change with them?
- Bt. 7, 3 ;
- Fox 22, 22 ,
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Nis ǽnegu gesceaft ðe ne hwearfige swá swá hweól déþ,
- Met. Fox 13, 147 ;
- Met. 13, 74 .
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Hwearfode,
- 20, 411 ;
- Met. 20, 206 .
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Hwearfian,
- Bt. 33, 4 ;
- Fox 132, 11 .
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Heán hwearfian
to wander abject,
- Andr. Kmbl. 1781 ;
- An. 893 .
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Fóran hwearfigende [hwearfiende, MS. Coll.] geond ðæt wésten
they went wandering through the desert;
per vasta deserti evagatur,
- Ors. 6, 31 ;
- Swt. 286, 19.
Bosworth, Joseph. “hwearfian.” 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/20102.
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