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Add: I. to stretch out, spread out
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  • Álecge hé his swiþran hand him under heáfod áreahte,

      Lch. ii. 214, 10.
to hold out to, to grant, v. reccan,
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  • Árecte (-æ)

    concesserim,

      Txts. 53, 523 (cf. 106, 1089). Áræctæ, Wrt. Voc. ii. 14, 69.
to raise, lift up
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  • Dryhten áreceð (

    eregit

    ) alle gecnysede,
      Ps. Srt. 144, 14.

  • Hé árehte (

    erexit

    ) horn haelu, ii. p.
      199, 6.

  • Up árehte sindun

    erecti sumus,

      19, 9.

  • Upp árehte

    arrectas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 3.
to excite, astonish [cf. O. H. Ger. arrachte exciti]
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  • Áreahtum

    attonitis (oculis ),

      Kent. Gl. 579.

  • Árehtum attonitis (auditoribus), An. Ox. 7, 144:

    attonitis (spectatoribus),

      8, 187.

  • V. to recount, tell, declare :-- Árecco

    eructuabo,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 65.

  • Arecþ

    refert,

      142, 39.

  • Árehtun (-an, -on) expresserunt, 108, 5 : 30, 14: 145, 55 :

    retulerunt, i. narraverunt.

      An. Ox. 2910.

  • Þæt hyra nán ne wandode for mínum ege þæt hý þæt folcriht árehton,

      Cht. Th. 486, 25.

  • Hwá is þæt þe eall ðá yfel þe hí dónde wǽron ásecgean mæge oððe áreccean ?, Ors. 1, 8; S. 42, 7. tó áreccganne (-secganne?)

    expediari,

      Lk. p. 3, 7.
to explain, expound
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  • Areccan

    explanare,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 46.

  • Swǽ ic hié andgitfullícost áreccean meahte,

      Past. 7, 24.

  • Ðis wé willað hwéne rúmedlícor áreccean

    haec paulo latius replicando disseramus,

      75, 17.

  • Sié áreaht

    expolietur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 31, 69.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ar-recchen exprimere, edere, explicare, exponere, digerere.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-reccan.” 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/38899.

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