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mengan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
mengan, mængan, mencgan; p. de.
Wright's OE grammar
§60; §289; §530; §643;
to mix, mingle, combine
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  • Ic menge

    mango(?),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 42.
  • Mengio,

    • 113, 59: Epl. Gl. 156, 36.
  • Mænge

    margo (mango? ),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 48.
  • Menget

    confundit,

    • 105, 11.
  • Ic mínne drinc mengde wið teárum

    potum meum cum fletu temperabam,

    • Ps. Th. 101, 7.
  • Ðú wið fýre foldan mengdest,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 20, 223
    • ;
    • Met. 20, 112.
  • Ðara blód Pilatus mengde (

    miscuit

    )

    mid hyra offrungum,

    • Lk. Skt. 13, 1.
  • Ðonne wé medelcwidas mengdon

    when we conversed,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 865
    • ;
    • Sal. 432.
  • Hí hí wið mánfullum megndan þeóde

    commisti sunt inter gentes,

    • Ps. Th. 105, 26.
  • Hí mínne mete mengde wið geallan,

    • 68, 22.
  • Meng ða blisse wið ða unrótnesse,

    • Prov. Kmbl. 71.
  • Fífleáfon seáw mencg (mængc, MS. B) tó wíne,

    • Herb. 3, 6
    • ;
    • Lchdnl. i. 88, 112.
  • Menge mon wið áseowen hunig,

    • L. M. 2, 26
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 220, 10.
  • Nánne wǽtan hí ne cúþon wið hunige mengan,

    • Bt. 15
    • ;
    • Fox 48, 10.
  • Mengan,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 8, 48
    • ;
    • Met. 8, 22.
  • Mengan lyge wið sóðe,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 612
    • ;
    • El. 306.
  • Of sexual intercourse :--

    Is eác bewered ðæt mon hine menge wið his bróðor wífe

    cum cognata misceat prohibitum est,

    • Bd. 1, 27
    • ; S. 491, 16, 10.
intrans
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  • Hát and ceald hwílum mencgaþ,

    • Cd. 216
    • ;
    • Th. 273, 6
    • ;
    • Sat. 132.
to mingle together, stir up, disturb
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  • Mengan merestreámas,

    • Exon. 123 b
    • ;
    • Th. 475, 3
    • ;
    • Bo. 42.
  • Meregrundas mengan,

    • Beo. Th. 2903
    • ;
    • B. 1449.
Etymology
[Cf. his mod him gon mengen, Laym. 3407: wraþþe meinþ þe heorte blod, O. and N. 945.
Prompt. Parv. mengyn misceo
:
O. Sax. O. L. Ger. mengian
:
O. Frs. mengia
:
O. H. Ger. chi-menghid; pp.
:
Ger. mengen.
]
Similar entries
v. ge-, geond-mengan.
Linked entries
v.  mængan for-mengan.
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