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Grammar
gram, grom; adj. [grama anger]
Wright's OE grammar
§425;
Furious, fierce, wroth, angry, offended, incensed, hostile, troublesome
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  • He swá grom wearþ on his móde

    he became so incensed;

    rex iratus,
      Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 72, 32: 6, 4; Swt. 260, 23.

  • Driliten wæs ðam folce gram

    the Lord was angry with the people,

      Deut. 1, 37: Cd. 16; Th. 20, 2; Gen. 302.

  • Wearþ se cyng swíðe gram wið ða burhware

    the king was very angry with the citizens,

      Chr. 1048; Erl. 178, 6.

  • He wæs on his gáste gram

    exacerbaverunt spiritum ejus,

      Ps. Th. 105, 25.

  • Ic eom nalæs grames módes

    non sum turbatus,

      118, 60.

  • Of gramum folce

    de populo barbaro,

      113, 1.

  • Ðín ðæt grame yrre

    thy fierce anger,

      68, 25: 84, 1: 108, 18.

  • Seó eádge biseah ongeán gramum

    the blessed maid looked on the fierce one [the devil],

      Exon. 75 a; Th. 280, 12; Jul. 628: Cd. 27; Th. 36, 35; Gen. 582.

  • Ða graman Gydena ðe folcisce men hátaþ Parcas

    the fierce goddesses whom common people call Parcæ,

      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 24.

  • Grame gúþfrecan

    fierce warriors,

      Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 35; Jud. 224: Andr. Kmbl. 1833; An. 919: Ps. Th. 104, 30.

  • Grame me forhogedon

    my enemies despised me,

      118, 141: 104, 15: Judth. 12; Thw. 25, 2; Jud. 238.

  • Grame manige fremde þeóda

    many hostile and strange nations;

    alienigenæ,
      Ps. Th. 82, 6: 118, 138: Exon. 126 b; Th. 485, 26; Rä. 72, 3.

  • Ðǽr ða graman wunnon

    where the fierce ones struggled,

      Beo. Th. 1559; B. 777.

  • In gramra gripe

    into the grasp of foes,

      Andr. Kmbl. 433; An. 217: 1901; An. 953.

  • Gromra,

      Cd. 114; Th. 150, 2; Gen. 2485.

  • Deófla strǽlas gromra gárfare

    the shafts of devils, the spears of fierce spirits,

      Exon. 19 a; Th. 49, 5; Cri. 781.

  • Ne beó ðú ælþeódegum gram

    thou shalt not ... oppress a stranger,

      Ex. 23, 9.

  • Ne beó ðú me gram

    noli mihi molestus esse,

      Lk. Skt. 11, 7: 18, 5.
Etymology
[Laym. gram: Orm. gramm: O. Sax. gram, the gramo the devil: Icel. gramr wroth; pl. gramir, gröm fiends, demons; see Grmm. D. M. 942-3: O. H. Ger. gram iratus: Ger. gram.]
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v.  grom.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gram.” 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/17448.

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