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on-gildan

  • verb [ strong ]
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to pay (a penally for), to be punished for (with gen. acc. of crime
or clause)
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  • Banan heardlíce grimme ongildaþ, ðæs hié oft gilp brecaþ,

      Salm. Kmbl. 265; Sal. 132.

  • Hé ðæs wraðe ongeald,

      Cd. Th. 111, 26; Gen. 1861: 253, 20; Dan. 598.

  • Hú eall moncvn angeald ðæs ǽrestan monnes synna mid miclum teónum and wítum

    ab initio et peccare homines et puniri propter peccata,

      Ors. 5, 15; Swt. 250, 27.

  • Hú swíðe hí his anguldon from heora ágnum cásere

    ut Caesare punirentur,

      6, 2; Swt. 256, 6.

  • Weorces onguldon deópra firena þurh deáþes cwealm,

      Exon. Th. 153, 22; Gú. 829: 226, 23; Ph. 410.

  • Ðæs ða byre siððan grimme onguldon gafulrǽdenne,

      161, 15; Gú. 959.

  • Sceal wearh ongildan, ðæt hé ǽr fácen dyde

    he shall pay the penalty for previous wrong-doing,

      Menol. Fox 573; Gn. C. 56.

  • Sceolde hé ða dǽd ongyldan,

      Cd. Th. 19, 23; Gen. 295.

  • Monig sceal ongieldan sáwel súsles

    shall be tormented,

      Exon. Th. 304, 17; Fä. 71.
to pay
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  • Hwylc hira óðrum sceolde tó fóddurþege feores ongildan

    which should pay for the others' food with his life,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2204; An. 1103.
to give an offering, to offer
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  • Ðǽr hǽðene men deóflum onguldon,

      Blickl. Homl. 221, 3.
Etymology
[Cf. O. Sax. a-, ant-(an-) geldan: O. H. Ger. ant-(en-, in-)geltan: Ger. ent-gelten.]
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v. á-, an-gildan.
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v.  an-gildan on-gyldan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-gildan.” 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/24583.

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