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or-þanc

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
or-þanc, es; m. n.
Wright's OE grammar
§10; §111; §580;
Original, inborn thought.
mind, genius, wit, understanding; ingenium
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  • Orþanc ingenium, cræftica artifex,

      Wrt. Voc.i. 47, 8-9. Líflíces orþa[nces
    ]

    vivacis ingenii,

      Hpt. Gl. 407, 40-43.
  • Hé genam þurh heora láre on his orþance ða egeslícan dǽda,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 21.
  • Nú wolde ic ðæt ða æðela[n] clericas ásceócon fram heora andgites orþance ǽlce sleacnysse, Anglia viii. 301, 4.
  • Gif ðonne [man] mid orþonce

    (skilfully)

    ðisses þinges fundian wille,
      Lchdm. i. 100, 6.
  • Yfele orþance

    malo ingenio,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 8.
  • Orþancas

    ingenia,

      Germ. 397, 423.
  • Orþancum

    ingeniis,

      Wülck. Gl. 250, 5.
a skilful contrivance or
work, artifice, device, design
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  • Orþanc molimen (cf. searo

    molimen,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 29), Ælfc. Gr. 9, 12 ; Som. 9, 32.
  • His ofermédu is fruma úres forlores and se orþonc (argumentum, cf. searwe

    argumenta,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 84, 69) ðe wé
    mid áliésde siendon is Godes eáðmódnes, Past. 41, 1 ; Swt. 301, 9.
  • Mid orþance

    argumento,

      Hpt. Gl. 439, 3 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 12.
  • Orþonce, gleáwnysse

    argumento,

      2, 11.
  • Hwá is ðæt ðe cunne orþonc clǽne (

    the creation

    ) nymðe éce God ?
      Cd. Th. 266, 6 ; Sat. 18.
  • Orþancas

    argumenta, commenta,

      Hpt. Gl. 479, 68.
  • Orþanc commenta, i. machinamenta, excogitata, astutia, argumenta, machinationes, ficta, fraudes, sarwa dicta, mendacia, Wülck.

    Gl.

      206, 42-46.
  • Orþonc

    machinamenta. Wrt. Voc. ii.

      113, 74.
  • Orþoncum. searwum

    commentis,

      14, 82.
  • Orþancum machinamentis. Hpt. Gl. 477, 9 :

    argumentis,

      486, 19.
  • Stán in goldfate smiþa orþoncum biseted,

      Exon. Th. 219, 8; Ph. 304: Beo. Th. 817; B. 406.
  • Ealle ða orþancas tóslíteþ,

      Salm. Kmbl. 145; Sal. 72.
  • U Orþoncum skilfully, cunningly, ingeniously, with art :-- Orþanc[um?]

    subtiliter, sagaciter,

      Hpt. Gl. 407, 21.
  • Is se sweora orþancum geworht

    (cunningly wrought),

      Exon. Th. 483, 15; Rá. 69, 3: Beo. Th. 4180; B. 2087.
  • Ðæt orþancum ealde reccaþ,

      Cd. Th. 200, 19; Exod. 359.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ur-dank argumentum, commentum. ]
Linked entries
v.  on-þanc þanc.
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