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on-sacan

  • verb [ strong ]
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§10;
to attack, strive against
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  • Ne biþ cwénlíc þeáw ðætte freoþuwebbe feores onsæce leófne mannan (

    to strife with a man for his life

    ),
      Beo. Th. 3889 ; B. 1942.
to, resist, refuse to comply with a demand
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  • Ðeáh ðú onsóce ðæt ðú sóþ godu lufian wolde

    though you have refused to love the true gods,

      Exon. Th. 254, 8; Jul. 194.
  • Hé ne trúwode ðæt hé sǽmannum onsacan mihte, hord forstandan bearn and brýde. Beo. Th. 5901 ; B. 2954.
to deny,
of persons,
to declare that one has no knowledge of a person
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  • Ne ðé onsæco (-sæcco, Lind.) ic

    non te negabo,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 14, 31.

  • Ðú mé onsæces

    me negabis,

      14, 72.

  • Se ðe mé onsaekeþ (-sæccas,

      Lind.)
    beforan monnum, onsaece ic ðone beforan fæder mínum, Mt. Kmbl. 10, 33.
to refuse a person what he wants
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  • Gif huá wil æfter meh gecyme onsæcæ (andsæce, Rush.) hine seolfne

    abneget semetipsum,

      16, 24.
to refuse to acknowledge a claim, not to allow the truth of a statement, in a legal sense
to deny a charge
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  • Ne onsace ic náuht, ðæt seó eádignes síe ðæt héhste gód ðises andweardan lífes,

      Bt. 24, 3 ; Fox 84, 14.

  • Ðá onsóc se óðer, and cwæþ hé him nán feoh ne sealde,

      Shrn. 127, 26.

  • Hé onsóc (andsóc,

      Rush.)
    mid aað, ðæt ic ne conn ðone monno, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 26, 72, 70.

  • Forðam hié his cræftas onsócon (

    they would not acknowledge his powers, would not bow down to the golden image),

      Cd. Th. 230, 1; Dan. 226.

  • Se ðæs onsóce, ðætte sóþ wǽre Waldend, se hié álýsde,

      244, 20; Dan. 451.

  • Ðonne sceal hé be. LX. hýda onsacan ðære þiéfþe gif hé áðwyrðe biþ. Gif Englisc onstal gá forþ, onsace be twýfealdum,

      L. In. 46; Th. i. 130, 13-15: Th. i. 132, l: 28; Th. i. 120, 8.
to make excuse
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  • Ongunnun alle onsaca (-sacca. Lind.)

    coeperunt omnes excusare.

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 14, 18.
  • Cf. of-sacan.
to sacrifice (v. on-secgan)
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  • Onsacende

    litaturus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 53, 57.
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v.  an-sacan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-sacan.” 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/24708.

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