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on-hyrian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
on-hyrian, p. ede
Wright's OE grammar
§525;
To imitate, emulate (with dat. acc.)
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  • Hwílum ic onhyrge gúþfugles hleóþor,

      Exon. Th. 406, 20; Rä. 25, 4: 391, 2; Rä. 9, 10.

  • Mon onhyreþ dysegum neátum

    homo comparatus est jumentis insipientibus,

      Ps. Th. 48, 11.

  • Se ðe hit gehýreþ hé onhyreþ ðam

    ad imitandum bonum auditor sollicitus instigatur,

      Bd. pref.; S. 471, 15: Bt. 41, 5; Fox 254, 5.

  • Ða cild onhyriaþ ealdum monnum,

      36, 5; Fox 180, 10.

  • Ðonne wé onhyrigaþ Criste,

      Past. 51; Swt. 397, 1.

  • Ðæt hý ne onhyredon ðǽm yfelwillendum, Ps. Th. 36, arg. Ne onhyre (

    emulatus fueris

    ) ðam ðe byþ orsorh,
      36, 7.

  • Onhyriaþ,

      36, 1.

  • Ne ðú ne onhere

    ne emuleris,

      Kent. Gl. 58.

  • Ne onherie

    ne emuletur,

    885.

  • Ðæt wé onhyrigen ðǽm þeáwum,

      Past. 34; Swt. 231, 3: Swt. 229, 15.

  • Onhyrgean wé ðone blindan,

      Blickl. Homl. 21, 9.

  • Wé sceolan onherian Marian ðære ðe smerede Hǽlendes fét,

      75, 11.

  • Onhyrian (-hirian,

      Cott. MS.), Bt. 40, 4; Fox 240, 4: Bd. 1, 7; S. 477, 2.

  • Ðæt onhyrian woldan,

      4, 3; S. 569, 43.

  • Heora líf onhyrian wolde,

      4, 13; S. 582, 24: 5, 9; S. 622, 12.

  • Onhyrigean,

      1, 26; S. 487, 32.

  • Onhyrgan,

      3, 18; S. 545, 43.

  • Hé ðære frymþelícan cyrican líf wæs onhyrigende,

      1, 26; S. 487, 28: 4, 23; S. 593, 15.

  • Onhyrgende,

      L. Ecg. P. iv. 68, 8; Th. ii. 228, 29.
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v.  an-hyrian on-herian hyrian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-hyrian.” 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/24640.

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