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tó-stencan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
tó-stencan, p -stencte; pp. -stenced, -stenct.
Wright's OE grammar
§531;
to scatter the parts of a whole,
disperse a number of objects gathered together
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  • Ðú tóstencst big

    dissipabis eos,

      Ps. Spl. 143, 8.
  • Se wulf cymþ tó ðám sceápum, sume hé ábítt, sume hé tóstencþ,

      Homl. Th. i. 240, 24: 238, 16.
  • Ðínne líchoman geond ðisse ceastre lanan hié tóstenceaþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 237, 5.
  • Ðú tóstenctest feónd ðíne

    dispersisti inimicos tuos,

      Ps. Spl. 88, 11 : 43, 13.
  • Gif wind tó cóme, ðonne tóstencte hé ða lác

    sácri-ficium superveniens aura dispergeret,

      Past. 33; Swt. 217, 22.
  • Se god-cunda anweald hí

    (the builders of Babel)

    tóstencte,
      Bt. 35, 4; Fox 162, 24: Homl. Th. i. 318, 18.
  • Tósteng

    (dissipa)

    þeóda ðe gefeoht willaþ,
      Ps. Spl. 67, 34.
  • Ða lác tóstencean

    (dispergere).

      Past. 33; Swt. 219, 5.
  • Tóstencud biþ ðæt éde,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 14, 27.
  • Tóstenced,

      Exon. Th. 16, 21 ; Cri. 256.
  • Tóstencte

    dispersae,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 71.
  • Ðá wǽron tóstencte

    (dispersi sunt)

    ealle ða wiðerweardan gástas,
      Bd. 5, 12; S. 629, 7: l, 16; S. 484, 14: Bt. 39, 13; Fox 234, 27: Homl. Th. ii. 244, 34.
to destroy the integrity of a whole,
dissipate, bring to nought, overthrow
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  • Tóstencþ (disperdat) Drihten ealle weleras fácnfulle,

    Ps.

      Spl. 11, 3.
  • Drihten tóstenceþ (

    dissipat

    ) geþeaht ðeóda,
      32, 10.
  • Tóstencþ gold*-*hord

    dissipabit thesaurum

    (Prov.
      21, 20), Kent. Gl. 793.
  • Se

    (Edwy)

    þurh his cildhádes nytenesse his ríce tóstencte and his ánnesse tódǽlde,
      Lchdm. iii. 434, 36.
  • Tóstencton

    (dissipaverunt)

    unrihtwíse ǽ ðíne.
      Ps. Spl. 118. 126.
  • Hí munucregol myrdon and mynstra tóstæncton, . Chr. 975'; Erl. 127. 21.
  • Ofermódignyss seó ðe englas cúþe beswícan, micele má menn tóstencean

    (dissipare),

      Scint. 83, 13.
  • Gif ys of mannum géþeaht ðis oððe weorc, sí tostenct (dissoluetur, dissipabitur); gif hit of Gode ys, gé ne mágon tóstencean

    (dissoluere)

    (Acts
      5, 38, 39), 199, 2-4.
  • Tóstencendes

    dissipantis (sua opera,

      Prov. 18, 9), Kent. Gl. 639.
  • Ne biþ flód tóstencende, (-sencende, MS. ) ða eorðan

    neque erit diluvium dissipans terram,

      Gen. 9, 11.
  • Se yfela willa biþ tóstenced, swá récels beforan fýre, gif mon ðæt weorc þurhtión ne mæg

    (potuisse miserius est) sine quo voluntatis miserae langueret effectus,

      Bt. 38, 2; Fox 196, 31.
  • Sint tóstente dissipantur (cogitationes, Prov. 15, 22), Kent. Gl. 530. II a. intrans. To perish :-- Hí tostencton on ende

    disperierunt in Endor,

      Ps. Spl. 82, 9. v. next three words.
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v.  stencan tó-sencende tó-stencedness.
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