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on-styrian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to move, stir (of physical motion)
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  • Se líchoma ná ne onstyreþ siððan seó sáwl him of biþ,

    • Blickl. Homl. 21, 27
      • .

  • Onstyredan, drifan

    agitabant,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 39
      • .

  • Heó nǽnig lim onstyrian mihte,

    • Bd. 4, 9
      • ;
    • S. 577, 4
      • .

  • Onstyrgan ( commoveri ) foet míne,

    • Ps. Surt. 65, 9
      • .
to move, stir up, excite
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  • Hí mycle fyrhto onstyredon ðám monnum ðe hí sceáwodon,

    • Bd. 5, 23
      • ;
    • S. 645, 23
      • .

  • Unsibbe onstyrian,

    • Cd. Th. 281, 14
      • ;
    • Sat. 271
      • .
to move, disturb, agitate (a person)
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  • Seó gedréfednes mæg ðæt mód onstyrian,

    • Bt. 5, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 12, 24
      • .

  • Se ðe mæg eorþware onstyrian,

    • Ps. Th. 98, 1
      • .

  • Hý fægniaþ gif ic onstyred beó

    exultabunt si motus fuero,

    • 12, 5: 32, 7
      • .

  • Hwæt arun gé onstyred

    quid turbamini,

    • Mk. Skt. Rush. 5, 39
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  • Onstyred and onǽled mid andan,

    • Past. 21
      • ;
    • Swt. 159, 7: Blickl. Homl. 199, 16
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  • Onstyred mid heora wordum,

    • 225, 23
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  • Eal seó burh wæs onstyred,

    • 71, 13
      • .

  • Hié beóþ on heora móde mid mislícum geþohtum onstyrede,

    • 19, 9
      • .
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v.  in-styrian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-styrian.” 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/24772.

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