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of-teón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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of-teón, pp. -togen
Wright's OE grammar
§653;
and -tigen.
to withdraw
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  • He hine ofteáh ðære fôre

    subtraxit se illi profectioni,

    ,
      Bd. 5, 9 ; S. 623, 23.
to take away what a person has, deprive a person of anything (with dat. or acc. of person, gen. of thing, or dat. of person and acc. of thing)
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  • Ic ofteó

    derogo.

      Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 27.

  • Gif mon him oftíhþ ðara þénunga and ðæs anwealdes

    detrahat si quis superbis vani tegmina cultus,

      Bt. 37, ; Fox 186, 10.

  • Oft ic sýne ofteáh, âblende beorna unrím,

      Exon. Th. 270, 21; Jul. 468.

  • Wé oftugon ðé londes wynna,

      130, 15; Gú. 438.

  • Búton seó syncopa ðone

    i (of the gen. pl.)

    ofteó,
      Ælfc. Gr. 10; Som. 14, 55.

  • Nó Ælmihtig ealra wolde Adam and Eve ârna ofteón,

      Cd. Th. 58, 29; Gen. 953.

  • Gif him gebyreþ ðæt him wyrþ ðara þénunga oftohen (oftogen,

      Met. 25, 31), Bt. 37, I; Fox 186, 14.

  • Ðé biþ seó bodung oftogen,

      Homl. Th. ii. 530, 30.

  • Oftigen biþ him torhtre gesihþe

    he shall be deprived of clear sight,

      Exon. Th. 335, 29; Gn. Ex. 41.
to withhold, keep back, deny a person anything
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  • Ic ðé ofteó mînne fultum . . . Ic ofteó mîne rénscúras

    I will withhold from thee my help . . . I will withhold my rain-showers,

      Homl. Th. ii. 102, 32-33.
  • Gehelp ðû earmra manna mid ðam dǽle ðe ðú ðé sylfum oftíhst, i. 180, 12.
  • For synnum oftíhþ se Ælmihtiga Wealdend hwílon mannum bigleofan, ii. 462, 21.

  • Gif wê Godes láre eów ofteóþ,

      554, 18.

  • Hond feorhsweng ne ofteáh

    the hand refused not to strike a fatal stroke,

      Beo. Th. 4972 ; B. 2489 : 3045 ; B. 1520.

  • Gé him ǽghwæs oftugon hrægles nacedum móses mete*-*leásum ye withheld from them everything, raiment from the naked, food from the hungry, Exon. Th. 92, 8; Cri. 1505. [And wó só mîne cwyde ofté God him ofté heuenríches

    and whoso refuses to carry out my testament, may God refuse him the kingdom of heaven,

      Chart. Th. 515, 30
    ]Hé hét hire ofteón étes and wǽtes, Homl. Skt. i. 8, 129 : Blickl. Homl. 37, 28.

  • Ðæt ðám gódum, ðe hit

    (doctrine)

    gehealdan willaþ, ne sý oftogen seó gástlíce deópnyss,
      Homl. Th. ii. 96, 4: i. 370, 8.

  • Swelce snytro swylce óðrum ieldran gewittum oftogen is

    negatas senibus dignitates,

      Bt. 8; Fox 24, 29.
Etymology
[Goth. af-tiuhan: O. H. Ger. aba-ziohan abstrahere.]
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “of-teón.” 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/24377.

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