Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

of-stingan

  • verb [ strong ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
of-stingan, to wound or
kill by a thrust, to stab, pierce
Show examples

  • His ealdgefána sum hiene ofstang

    a Pausania occisus est,

      Ors. 3, 7 ; Swt. 118, 34.

  • Hé hiene (the elephant) on ðone nafelan ofstang, 4, 1 ; Swt. 156, II. Hé (Pilate) hiene selfne ofstong

    sua se transverberans manu,

      6, 3 ; Swt. 258, 10: Shrn. 33, 5.
  • Hé wolde ofstingan Eádwine, ac hé ofstang Lillan his þegn. Chr. 626; Erl. 23, 29 : 755; Erl. 48, 23.

  • Ne ofstong Æfner hiene n mid ðý speres orde ac mid hindewerdum ðam sceafte

    Abner non eum recta, sed aversa hasta transforavit.

      Past. 40, 6; Swt. 297, 10.

  • Sunu gif hé (

    an ox) ofstinge (gore ),

      L. Alf. 21; Th. i. 50, 2.

  • Hât Fabianus ðæt hí man begen ofstunge,

      Homl. Skt. i. 5, 405.

  • Ðæt ic ðé ne dyrre ofstingan

    ne compellar confodere te in terram,

      Past. 40, 5 ; Swt. 295, 16.

  • Hêr Ǽdmund cyning wearð ofstungen,

      Chr. 948; Erl. 117, 8.
Similar entries
v. ofstician.
Linked entries
v.  of-stician.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “of-stingan.” 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/24371.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • of-stingan, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.