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a-hycgan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-hycgan, -hicgan; p. -hogde, -hogode; pp. [ge]-hugod
To devise, search, invent; excogitare, perscrutari, invenire
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  • Leóhtor ðonne hit men mǽgen módum ahycgan

    more clearly than men may in mind devise it,

    • Exon. 21 a; Th. 56, 20
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    • Cri. 903
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  • Bæd him ðæs rǽd ahicgan

    besought them to devise counsel for this,

    • Cd. 94; Th. 122, 24
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    • Gen. 2031: 178
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    • Th. 224, 3
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    • Dan. 130
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  • Hie ahogodan heoro

    they invented the sword,

    • Exon. 92 a; Th. 346, 9
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    • Gn. Ex. 202
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v. hycgan.
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v.  a-hicgan.
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