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tó-brítan

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-brítan, p. te.
to break in pieces, crush, bruise (lit. and fig.)
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  • Ic tóbrýte tero, Ælfc. Gr. 28, 1 ; Zup. 165, 14:

    confringo,

      28, 6 ; Zup. 176, 9.

  • Ic tóbrýte hí

    confringam eos,

      Ps. Lamb. 17, 39.

  • Ðú tóbrýtst hig

    confringes eos,

      2, 9.

  • Tóbrýt (

    confringet

    ) Drihten cederbeám,
      Ps. Lamb. 28. 5: 57, 7.

  • Heó tóbrýt

    (conteret)

    ðín heáfod,
      Gen. 3, 15.

  • Boga[n] tóbrýteþ,

      Ps. Spl. 45, 9.

  • Téþ sinfulra ðú tóbríttest

    (contrivisti),

      3, 7.

  • Folc ðú tóbríttest

    (confringes),

      55, 7.
  • Gewít of ðære leásan anlícnysse, and tóbrýt hí eall and hire cræt samod. Homl. Th. ii. 496, 14.

  • Tóbrýt

    (contere)

    earm, ðæs synfullan,
      Ps. Lamb. 9 second, 15.

  • Flǽsces tóbrýte

    (terat)

    módignesse,
      Hymn. Surt. 9, 22.

  • Ne ús gedweld tóbrýte

    (atterat),

      17, 24.

  • Ðæt God úre helpe and tóbrýte ðisne here,

      Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 350.

  • Ic bebeóde mínum þeówum þæt hí hí (

    the idols

    ) ealle tóbrýton, i.
      5, 236.

  • Tóbrýtendes

    confringentis,

      Ps. Lamb. 28, 5.

  • Tóbrýtendne

    (conterentem)

    deóful,
      Hymn. Surt. 115, 15.

  • Boga heora biþ tóbrýt

    arcus eorum confringatur.

      Ps. Spl. 36, 16.

  • Tóbrýt ł tóbrocen

    contrita, constricta.

      Hpt. Gl. 482, 67.

  • Tóbrýt

    contritus,

      515, 5.

  • Tóbrýttes

    attritae, violatae,

      474, 75.

  • Tóbrýtte ł ofrorene

    obruti, contriti,

      506, 6.

  • Tóbréttum

    quassatis, confractis,

      421, 39.
to crush with feelings of sorrow, to make contrite
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  • Heortan ða tóbrýttan

    cor contritum,

      Ps. Lamb. 50, 19.

  • Ða tóbrýttan on heortan

    contritos corde,

      146, 3.
    [Corineus heom tobrutte ban and heora ribbes, Laym. 1602.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-brítan.” 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/30610.

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