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swinge

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
swinge, swynge (both forms occur in the Pastoral), an; f.
A stripe, stroke.
literal, a stroke with a scourge or rod
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  • Sc̃p. Petrus hine mid grimmum swingum swong and þreáde (flagellis artioribus afficiens) . . . Cwæþ him eác tó: ' Ic bende and swingan (vincula, verbera) ðrowade' . . . Ðá wæs Laurentius mid ðæs Apostoles swingum (flagellis) swíþe gebylded; cwom and eáwde mid hú miclum swingum (verberibus) hé ðreád wæs,

    • Bd. 2, 6
      • ;
    • S. 508, 12-24.

  • Bedrífe hine ( wíteþeów, v. Grmm. R. A. 703) tó swingum,

    • L. In. 48
      • ;
    • Th. i. 132, 10: 54
      • ;
    • Th. i. 138, 4.

  • Ða hálgan men geðafedon on ðisse worlde monige swyngean and monige bendas and carcernu

    sancti verbera experti, insuper et vincula et carceres,

    • Past. 30
      • ;
    • Swt. 205, 12.
metaphorical, chastisement, afflicting stroke
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  • Geféged tó ðǽm gefógstánum on ðære Godes ceastre bútan ðæm hiéwete ǽlcre suingean (swingan

    ,
    • Cote. MSS.
    )

    sine disciplinae percussione,

    • Past. 36
      • ;
    • Swt. 253, 20.

  • Sunu mín ne ágiémeleása ðú Godes suingan(swingan

    ,
    • Cote. MSS.
    )

    fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini,

    • Swt. 253, 2.

  • Ic neósiu in swingum (verberibus) synne heara,

    • Ps. Surt. 88, 33.
Etymology
[
With a swinge of his sworde (he) swappit hym in the face, Destr. Tr. 1271.
O. H. Ger. swinga flagellum
:
Ger. schwinge a winnow, fan.
]
Similar entries
v. sweng, and next word.
Linked entries
v.  swynge.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “swinge.” 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/29828.

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