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a-reccan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-reccan, -recan, -reccean; ic -recce, ðú -reccest, -recest, he -receþ, -recþ; p. -reahte, -rehte; impert. -rece; pp. -reaht, -reht; v. trans.
to put forth, stretch out, strain, raise up; extendere, expandere, erigere
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  • Hondum slógun, folmum areahtum and fýstum eác

    they struck with their hands, with outstretched palms and fists also,

    • Exon. 24 a ; Th. 69, 23
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    • Cri. 1125
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  • Areahtum eágum

    attonitis oculis,

    • Prov. 16
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    • Lye.

  • He mæg of woruf-torde ðone þearfendan areccan

    de stercore erigens pauperem,

    • Ps. Th. 112, 6 : 144, 15
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to put forth, relate, recount, speak out, express, explain, interpret, translate; proponere, exponere, enarrare, eloqui, exprimere, disserere, interpretari, reddere
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  • Ðara sume we areccan wyllaþ

    some of which we will relate,

    • Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 7
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    • Menol. Fox 138
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    • Men. 69
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  • Ðá se Wísdóm ðá ðis spell areht [MS. Cot. areaht] hæfde

    when Wisdom then had spoken this speech;

    • Bt. 36, 2 ; Fox 174, 3 : 39, 3
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    • Fox 214, 14
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    • Bt. Met. Fox 8, 3
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    • Met. 8, 2
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  • Wordum gereccan [MS. Cot. areccan]

    to express in words,

    • Bt. 20; Fox 70, 28
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  • Arece us ðæt bigspell

    edissere nobis parabolam,

    • Mt. Bos. 13, 36: 15, 15
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  • Arece us ðæt gerýne

    explain to us the mystery,

    • Exon. 9 a ; Th. 5, 24
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    • Cri. 74: 49 a; Th. 169, 16
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    • Gú. 1095
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    • Cd. 202; Th. 250, 5
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    • Dan. 542
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  • Án ǽrendgewrit of Lǽdene on Englisc areccean

    to translate an epistle from Latin into English,

    • Past. pref. Hat. MS.
to set in order, adorn, deck? expedire, expolire, comere?
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    Areaht síe

    expoliatur,

    • Cot. 77
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    • Lye
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    • Exon. 94 a; Th. 353, 9
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    • Reim. 10
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v.  a-reaht a-recan a-reccean a-reccende a-receþ a-reht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “a-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/2083.

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