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torfian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
torfian, p. ode. In the first instance to throw with turf at a person (cf. stǽnan), and then with stones or the like; so
Icel. has tyrfa með grjóti ok með torfi, and Swed. tyrva med stenom. Afterwards in a more general sense to throw.
to throw at an object, strike with a missile,
to stone a person
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  • Seó clǽnnes ða fúlnesse mid flinte torfaþ

    pudicitia libidinem cum saxo percutit,

      Gl. Prud. 12 a. Ða
    deóflu mé swíðe geegsiaþ and eác swylce torfiaþ, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 424.
  • Hí námon stánas, ðæt hí hine torfodon,

      Homl. Th. ii. 236, 21.
  • Hí mid stánum torfodon ðone soðfæstan Iacob,

      300, 18.
  • Hig námon stánas tó ðam ðæt hig woldon hyne torfian tulerunt lapides, ut iacerent in eum, Jn. Skt. 8, 59:

    ut lapidarent eum,

      10, 31.
  • Ða leásan gewitan hine ongunnon ǽrest tó torfienne,

      Homl. Th. i. 50, 15.
to throw, cast,
with acc. of thing thrown
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  • Hé geseah hú ðæt folc hyra feoh torfude on ðone tollsceamul, and manega welige torfudon fela

    aspiciebat quomodo turba iactaret aes in gazophilacium, et multi diuites iaciabant multa,

      Mk. Skt. 12, 41.
without an object
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  • Ic torfige oððe sceóte

    iacio,

      Ælfc. Gr. 28, 6; Zup. 178, 16.
  • Ða Frencisce men torfedon tówærd ðam weofode,

      Chr. 1083; Erl. 217, 17.
Etymology
[Samuel þe sticches toruede (tarueden, 1st MS.) oueral þan strede, Laym. 16703. Icel. tyrfa to pelt a person with something.]
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v. of-, tó-torfian; turf, and next word.
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v.  a-torfian ge-torfian.
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