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for-sacan

  • verb [ strong ]
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for-sacan, p. -sóc, pl. -sócon; pp. -sacen
To declare an opposition, oppose, object to, refuse, give up, forsake; detrectāre, recūsāre, desĕrĕre
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  • Gange án mynet ofer ealne ðæs cynges ánweald, and ðone nán man ne forsace

    let one money pass throughout the king's dominion, and that let no man refuse,

    • L. Edg. ii. 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 270, 1.
  • Forsóc ðæne triumphan

    refused the triumph,

    • Ors. 2, 4
    • ;
    • Bos. 42, 43.
  • He ðæt wæs eall forsacende

    he was giving up all that,

    • 1, 12
    • ;
    • Bos. 36, 16.
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