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óga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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óga, an ; m.
Wright's OE grammar
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the feeling which is excited in a person,
terror, dread, horror, great fear
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  • Óga horror, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 21 ; Som. 10, 26: metus, 11; Som. 15, 12 :

    pavor,

      Hymn. Surt. 3, 23.
  • Micel óga (

    horror

    ) him becom,
      Gen. 15, 12.
  • Bútan ógan

    (absque terrore)

    hé hine gerest,
      Ælfc. Gr. 47 ; Som. 48, 4.
  • Ða clypode hé mid micclum ógan,

      Homl. Th. ii. 98, 3.
the exciting cause of such a feeling
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  • Beó eówer ege and óga ofer ealle nítenu

    terror vester ac tremor sit super cuncta animalia,

      Gen. 9, 2.
  • On lígette is óga,

      Homl. Th. i. 222, 32.
  • For hellewítes ógan (

    on account of the terror which hell-torment causes

    ), oððe for Sæs écan lífes wuldre,
      R. Ben. 19, 17.
an object which excites fear, a terrible, horrible thing
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  • Hé hét Ðeódolum standan æt ðam múþe (of the fiery furnace) ðæt hé for ðam ógan (

    on account of the terrible spectacle)

    him ábúgan sceolde.
      Homl. Th. ii. 310, 33.
  • Ógan (egsan, Lk. Skt. 21, 11) of heofenum and micele tácna

    terrores de caelo et signa magna,

      538, 32.
  • Ógana

    terribilium, Blickl. Gl. God him sende swíðlíce ógan (the ten plagues ),

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 5, 18.
  • [Cf. Goth. ógan to fear; ógian to terrify; Icel. ógn dread, terror; œgja to frighten; ægi-ligr terrible.] Cf. ege.
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  • óga, n.