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ofer-stígan

  • verb [ strong ]
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to mount, scale, surmount, rise above
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  • Ic heofonas oferstíge,

      Exon. Th. 482, 24; Rä. 67, 6.

  • Sume ða ýða hé hecerþ mid ðý scipe sume hit oferstígþ

    some of the waves the steersman avoids with the ship, some it surmounts,

      Past. 56, 3 ; Swt. 433, 3.

  • Heó ða þýstre ðysses andweardan middangeardes oferstáh

    praesentis ntundi tenebras transiens,

      Bd. 3, 8 ; S. 532, 3.

  • Hé on ánre diégelre stówe ðone munt oferstág. Ors. 4,

      6; Swt. 172, 21.

  • Breóst oferstág brim weallende eorlum óþ exle

    the boiling sea rose above the breast up to men's shoulders,

      Andr. Kmbl. 3146 ; An. 1576.

  • Eles gecynd is ðæt hé wile oferstígan ǽlcne wǽtan,

      Homl. Th. ii. 564, 12.
to transcend, surpass, excel, overcome, exceed
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  • Ic oferstíge excelleo, Ælfc. Gr. 26 ;

    Som.

      28, 45.

  • Ðú ealle ðíne yldran on ríce feor oferstígest

    (transcendas,

      Bd. 2, 12; S. 514, 9.

  • Hé ealra óðerra heáhfædera mægen oferstígeþ,

      Blickl. Homl. 167, 23.

  • Yldo oferbídeþ stánas, heó oferstígeþ stýle,

      Salm. Kmbl. 600 ; Sal. 299.

  • Oferstíhþ

    excedit, i. superat,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 71.

  • Ðæs gebodes micelnes his mihta oferstíhþ,

      R. Ben. 128, 14.

  • Hé ongeat ðæt hé oferstág hine selfne

    semetipsum noverat transcendere

    ,
      Past. 16, 2; Swt. 101, 13.

  • Oforstág,

      Blickl. Homl. 163, 28.

  • Oferstáh,

      Homl. Th. i. 70, 11.

  • Hí swíðra oferstág weard

    a stronger guard overcame them.

      Exon. Th. 116, 3 ; Gú. 201.

  • Oferstíge

    excedat,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 72.

  • Ǽr ðan ðe ðæs dæges lenge oferstíge ða niht,

      Lchdm. iii. 256, 13.

  • Oferstigan

    percellerent, supereminerent,

      Hpt. Gl. 489, 27.

  • Ða yldo mid þeáwum oferstígende

    aetatem moribus transiens.

      Bd. 5, 19 ; S. 637, 4.

  • Ða oferstígendan lufe

    the surpassing love,

      Homl. Th. ii. 408, 22.
  • [Goth. ufar-steigan : O. H. Ger. ubar-stígan transcendere, transire, exsuperare : Icel. yfir-stiginn overcome.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ofer-stígan.” 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/24243.

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