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styrian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
styrian, p. ede, ode
Wright's OE grammar
§525;
To stir, move
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  • Ic styrige

    moveo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 26, 5; Zup. 156, 9.
intrans.
To be in motion
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  • Hé sig ofer ða deór and ofer ealle ða creópende ðe stiraþ on eorþan

    praesit bestiis omnique reptili, quad movetur in terra,

      Gen. 1, 26.

  • Ealle ða þing ðe on eorðan stiriaþ . . . Eall ðæt ðe styraþ and leofaþ,

      9, 2, 3.

  • Eall flǽsc ðe ofer eorðan styrode,

      7, 21.

  • Streámas styredon,

      Andr. Kmbl. 747; An. 374.

  • Ne stira ðú, sunne, of ðam stede,

      Jos. 10, 12.

  • Hí ne móton swíþor styrian,

      Bt. 21; Fox 74, 8.

  • Ða styriendan nétenu,

      41, 5; Fox 252, 24.

  • Hý wǽron styriende

    commoti sunt,

      Ps. Th. 47, 5.

  • Styrendum

    mobilibus,

      Mt. Kmbl. p. 8, 7.
trans.
To put in motion
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  • Styrede agitabat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 53:

    exagitabat,

      Txts. 180, 2.
of physical movement
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  • Hé styreþ ðone rodor and ða tunglu

    coelum ac sidera movet,

      Bt. 39, 8; Fox 224, 6: Exon. Th. 422, 29; Rä. 41, 13.

  • Hí heora ágene stefne styriaþ,

      Met. 13, 49.

  • Hé dyde ðæt án ǽren nædre hý styrede,

      Wulfst. 98, 22.

  • Ða stánas hí styredon for ðam swége,

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 1.

  • Hé sceal gán and hyne styrian he must walk and move about, Lchdm. i. 316, 17. (1 a)

    to move

    the strings of an instrument :-- Ealle strengas se hearpere grét mid ánre honda, ðeáh hé hié ungelíce styrige,
      Past. 23; Swt. 175, 10.

  • Ic míne hearpan genam and míne strengas styrian ongan,

      Wulfst. 255, 9.

  • Hearpan stirgan, Exon. Th. 42, 8; Cri. 669. (1 b)

    to put in violent motion, to stir up, disturb, agitate :-- Ic (the storm )

    streámas styrge,
      Exon. Th. 386, 31; Rä. 4, 70: 382, 11; Rä. 3, 9.

  • Ðonne wind styreþ láð gewidru,

      Beo. Th. 2753; B. 1374.

  • Hé hringsele hondum styrede,

      5673; B. 2840.

  • Styre mid sticcan,

      Lchdm. ii. 76, 25. [Streámas
    ] styrgan, Exon. Th. 383, 29; Rä. 4, 18.

  • Sele him styrgendne drenc,

      Lchdm. ii. 106, 25.

  • Duruþegnum wearð hildbedd styred (

    disturbed;

    referring to the only course that seemed left to the cannibals, when the prison was found without their intended victims, viz to feed on the bodies of the dead prison-guards),
      Andr. Kmbl. 2186; An 1094.
figuratively,
to stir up, to excite, incite, rouse, move
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  • Óþ sædnysse stirgit

    ad congeriem (satietatem) coartet,

      Germ. 391, 30.

  • Nán ðæra wǽtena ðe druncennysse styriaþ,

      Homl. Th. ii. 298, 19.

  • Saca and wraca hé styrede gelóme,

      Wulfst. 106, 26.
  • Gárulf Gúðere styrode, Fins Th. 37; Fin. 18.

  • Swá sceal ǽghwelc láreów tó ánre lufan mid mislícum manungum his hiéremonna mód styrigean, Past. 23; Swt. 175, 12. (2 a) to handle, treat, deal with :-- Secg ongan síð Beówulfes snyttrum styrian, Beo. Th. 1749; B. 872. (2 b)

    to move, disturb, trouble, agitate

    :-- Mid ðǽm bisgum ðe on breóstum styreþ mon on móde,
      Met. 22, 64.

  • Ðara synfullena handa mé ná ne styrien,

      Ps. Th. 35, 11.

  • Ða ðe mé mid unryhte ǽnige styrian

    qui insurgunt in me,

      108, 27.

  • Swá bióþ módsefan of hiora stede styrede,

      Met. 7, 25.
Etymology
[Laym. A. R. sturien: Orm. stirenn: Ayenb. sterie. Cf. Icel. styrr stir, tumult, disturbance.]
Similar entries
v. á-, be-, ge-, geond-, on-, ymb-styrian.
Linked entries
v.  stirian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “styrian.” 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/29265.

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