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on-sittan

  • verb [ strong ]
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to occupy
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  • Ic onsitte

    insideo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 26; Som. 29, 6.
  • Ðó þré acres ðe hé onsit,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 259, 20.
  • Ðone hagan ðe hé sylf onsæt,

      39, 13.
  • Hit wæs his lǽn ðæt hé onsǽte,

      Chart. Th. 173, 5.
  • Onsite sǽnacan,

      Exon. Th. 474, 7; Bo. 26.
to oppress (cf. colloquial
to sit on a person)
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  • For ðám heardum weorcum ðe him onsæt,

      Ex. 6, 9.
  • Gehreás ł onsæt egsa heora ofer hig

    incubuit timor eorum super eos,

      Ps. Lamb. 104, 38.
  • Hé álýseþ þearfan ðæt him se welega ne mæg wiht onsittan

    liberavit pauperem a potente,

      Ps. Th. 71, 12.
(with a different prefix, cf.
O. H. Ger. int-sizzen metuere: Goth. and-sitan to regard) to fear (taking like ondrǽdan a reflexive dative)
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  • Nó ic mé onsitte

    non vereor,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 46.
  • Ne ic mé herehlóþe helle þegna swíðe onsitte,

      Exon. Th. 166, 15; Gú. 1043.
  • Ðæt is ðæt án ðæs ic eallan dæg mé onsitte,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 730.
  • Hí onsǽton and ondrédon ðæt wé heom grame beón woldon,

      23, 273.
  • Godes him ondrédon hete, heofoncyninges níþ swíðe onsǽton,

      Cd. Th. 48, 1; Gen. 769.
  • Ðonne ðú ðé selfum swíðost onsitte,

      Met. 5, 38.
  • Ðú ðé láðra ne þearft hæleþa hildþræce onsittan,

      Cd. Th. 130, 10; Gen. 2157: Beo. Th. 1198; B. 597: Exon. Th. 397, 22; Rä. 16, 23.
  • Hé wæs him onsittende ðæt hine sum man gecneówe,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 494.
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