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on-scunian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
on-scunian, -scynian, -sceonian.
Wright's OE grammar
§538;
to regard with loathing, to abhor, detest, execrate
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  • Ic onscunige (-sceonige)

    abhominor, detestor,

      Ælfc. Gr. 25; Som. 26, 63.

  • Drihten onscunaþ (

    abominatur

    ) ealle ðás þing.
      Deut. 18, 12.

  • Ealle Egiptisce onscuniaþ (

    detestantur

    ) scéphyrdas,
      Gen. 46, 34.

  • Onscuniaþ

    abhominentur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 59.

  • Ic hit swíðe onscunode

    multum detestans,

      Bd. 3, 17; S. 545, 3.

  • Word mín onscunedon (

    execrabantur

    ) wið mé,
      Ps. Surt. 55, 6.

  • Ðá anscunedon hiene his ágene leóde, and monige from him cirdon,

      Ors. 3, 11; Swt. 152, 12.

  • Ðonne hé biþ æfstig wið óðra manna yfelu anscunige eác his ágenu

    cum contra aliena vitia aemulatur ostenditur, quae sua sunt, exequatur.

      Past. 13, 2; Swt. 79, 12.

  • Ðá wæs ic ðæt swíðe onscuniende, and mé láþ wæs,

      Bd. 5, 12; S. 630, 32.

  • Onscunigende gefeoht

    exosus bella,

      Ælfc. Gr. 41; Som. 44, 12.

  • Onscunede

    exosam,

      Wülck. Gl. 55, 18.
to regard with disfavour, to refuse, reject, shun
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  • Ǽlc gesceaft onscunaþ ðæt ðæt hire wiðerweard biþ

    quae sunt adversa, depellit,

      Bt. 16, 3; Fox 56, 4.

  • Se ðe ðis gewrit gehýreþ hé flýhþ ðæt yfel and onscunaþ

    devitando quod noxium est,

      Bd. pref.; S. 471, 16.

  • Ðá onscunode hé ðæt and cwæþ

    qui renuens ait,

      Gen. 48, 19.

  • Hé onscunede unrihthǽmed

    ille recusabat stuprum,

      39, 10.

  • Gé onscunedon (

    rejected

    ) ðone Scippend, and gedwolan fylgdon, Elen. Kmbl. 739; El. 370.

  • Onscuna ðú leásunga (cf. fleóh leasunga. Ex. 23, 7),

      L. Alf. 44; Th. i. 54, 14.

  • Godes willan onscunian

    Dei voluntate resistere,

      Gen. 50, 19.

  • Heora ealde þeáwas onscunian and forlǽtan

    priscis abdicare moribus,

      Bd. 2, 2; S. 502, 35.

  • Nis ná tó onsceonienne seó sóðe gecyrrednys

    non est rejicienda vera conversio

    ,
      L. Ecg. P. i. 2; Th. ii. 172, 10.
to regard with fear
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  • Ondrédeþ ł onscynaþ formidet, Jn. Skt. Lind. 14, 27:

    metuit

    ,
      Rtl. 125, 25.

  • Onscyniaþ

    opriant(=aporiant ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 16.

  • Onscunode

    exorruit,

      33, 14.

  • Ðeáh hí men oððe hundas wið eodan, hí hí ná ne onscunedon . . . and nán heort ne onscunode nǽnne león

    though men or dogs went against them (wild beasts), they were not afraid of them . . . and the hart was not afraid of the lion

    ,
      Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 2-9.

  • Gif ðú heora untreówa onscunige

    si perfidam perhorrescis

    ,
      7, 2; Fox 18, 8.

  • Onscunien (

    revereantur

    ) feónd míne,
      Ps. Surt. 34, 4, 26.

  • Se onscunienda þystel

    carduus orrens

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 43.

  • Onscuniende

    aporians

    ,
      2, 23: 4, 74.

  • Onscunigende,

      78, 30.

  • Anscungendi

    aporiens

    ,
      100, 41.
to irritate
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  • Ábealg vel onscunede exacerbavit, i.

    provocavit, adflixit

    ,
      144, 56.

  • Onscynedun

    exacervaverunt

    ,
      Ps. Surt. 106, 11.
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v.  an-scúnian on-scynian a-scúnian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-scunian.” 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/24724.

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