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mis-wendan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
mis-wendan, p. de.
Wright's OE grammar
§652;
trans.
To pervert, apply to a wrong use, abuse
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  • Ðá miswendon sume ða englas heora ágenne cyre, and hý sylfe tó deóflum geworhton

    then some of the angels made an ill-use of the choice that was theirs, and made themselves devils,

    • Homl. Th. i. 112, 7.

  • Hé begann tó þreágenne ða gebróðru ðe miswende wǽron

    he began to rebuke the two brothers who were perverted,

    • 66, 34.

  • Mid þweorum ðú bist miswend

    cum perverso perverteris,

    • Ps. Lamb. 17, 27.
intrans.
To turn in a wrong direction, be perverted
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  • Gif seó gewylnung miswent, ðonne ácenþ he[ó] gýfernesse and forlygr and gítsunge,

    • Homl. Skt. 1, 102.
Etymology
[
Ayenb. hwanne he miswent and went to þe worse half al þet he yherþ, 62, 15
:
O. H. Ger. missa-wenten evertere; missa-wentit transversus, obliquus.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mis-wendan.” 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/23009.

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