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tó-stencan

  • verb [ weak ]
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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

    sácrificium 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 goldhord

    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.
intrans. To perish
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  • Hí tostencton on ende

    disperierunt in Endor,

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

Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-stencan.” 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/30868.

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