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a-sceacan

  • verb [ strong ]
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a-sceacan, -scacan, -scæcan; he -sceaceþ, -sceacþ, -scæceþ, -scaceþ; p. -sceóc, -scóc, pl. -sceócon, -scócon; pp. -sceacen, -scacen.
to shake off, remove; excutere
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  • Asceacaþ ðæt dust of eówrum fótum

    excutite pulverem de pedibus vestris,

    • Mk. Bos. 6, 11
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to be removed, forsake, desert, flee; excuti, fugere, aufugere, deserere
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  • Asceacen [Lamb. ofascacen] ic eom

    excussus sum,

    • Ps. Spl. C. 108, 22
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  • Ðæt Iacob wæs asceacen

    quod fugeret Jacob,

    • Gen. 31, 22
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  • He asceacen wæs fram Æðelréde

    he had deserted from Æthelred,

    • Chr. 1001; Ing. 174, 15
      • .
to shake, brandish, to be shaken; vibrare, quatere, concuti, labefieri, infirmari
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  • His swurd he acwecþ oððe asceacþ

    gladium suum vibrabit,

    • Ps. Lamb. 7, 13
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  • He ascæceþ feðre

    it shakes its plumage,

    • Exon. 58a; Th. 207, 20
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    • Ph. 144
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    • Ps. Spl. 7, 13
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  • Offa æscholt asceóc

    Offa shook his ashen spear,

    • Byrht. Th. 138, 35
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    • By. 230
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  • Wilsumne regn wolcen brincgeþ, and ðonne ascaceþ God sundoryrfe

    pluviam voluntariam segregabis, Deus, hereditati tuæ, etenim infirmata est,

    • Ps. Th. 67, 10
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v.  a-scacan a-scæcan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “a-sceacan.” 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/2213.

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