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under-bæc

  • adverb
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under-bæc, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§557;
where there is motion of a person in the direction towards which the back is kept turned, backwards,
approaching an object
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  • Sem and Iafeth eodon underbec

    Shem and Japhet went backward;

    incedentes retrorsum,

    • Gen. 9, 23.
motion from
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  • Ðá eodon hig underbæc

    they went backward;

    abierunt retrorsum,

    • Jn. Skt. 18, 6.

  • Hwílum ic underbæc bregde nebbe,

    • Exon. Th. 498, 5
      • ;
    • Rä. 87, 8.

  • Feallan underbæc

    to fall backwards,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 392, 8: Homl. Skt. i. 12, 63.

  • Sceófan underbæc,

    • 14, 88: 18, 345: Hontl. Th. ii. 300, 15.
marking retreat, where there is motion of a person in the direction to which his back has been turned, back
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  • Diabolo non dicitur: 'Uade retro me,' sed: 'Uade retro' ... Crist cwæð tó ðam deófle: 'Gá ðú underbæc.' Deófles nama is gereht, nyðerhreósende. Nyðer hé áhreás and underbæc hé eode ðá ðá hé wæs áscyred fram ðære heofonlícan blisse,

    • Homl. Th. i. 172, 30-35: Wrt. Voc. ii. 71, 70.

  • Nú næfð Israél nánne stede wið his fýnd ac flíhð underbæc

    nec poterit Israel stare ante hostes suos, eosque fugiet,

    • Jos. 7, 12.

  • Underbæc cyrran

    to turn back,

    • Exon. Th. 405, 2
      • ;
    • Rä. 23, 17: Ps. Lamb. 34, 4.
      • (Under bæce,
    • Ps. Spl. 34, 5.
      • )

  • Ðú gehwyrfdest míne fýnd underbæc

    in convertendo inimicum meum retrorsum,

    • Ps. Th. 9, 3.
where an action is directed towards a point behind the agent's back, behind, back
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  • Ðú forwurpe mín word underbæc fram ðé

    projecisti sermones meos postea,

    • Ps. Th. 49, 18: Homl. Th. ii. 532, 3.

  • Ne beseoh ðú underbæc

    noli respicere post tergum,

    • Gen. 19, 17: Cd. Th. 154, 28
      • ;
    • Gen. 2562: Jos. 8, 20.

  • Ðá beseah hé hine underbæc wið ðæs wífes,

    • Bt. 35, 6
      • ;
    • Fox 170, 14.

  • Háwian underbæc

    respicere retro (Lk. 9, 62),

    • Past. 51
      • ;
    • Swt. 403, 2.
where the point from which something proceeds is behind the recipient
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  • Ðín eáran gehíraþ underbæc

    thine ears shall hear a word behind thee (Is. 30, 21);

    aures tuae audient verbum post tergum monentis,

    • Past. 52
      • ;
    • Swt. 405, 26: 407, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “under-bæc.” 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/32766.

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