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rempan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
rempan, to go headlong (like an animal butting with its horns (?), cf. gerumpenu nædre coluber cerastes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 15, 68),
be precipitate
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  • Oft mon biþ suíðe rempende and rǽsþ suíðe dollíce on ǽlc weorc and hrædlíce and ðeáh wénaþ men ðæt hit síe for arodscipe and for hwætscipe

    saepe praecipitata actio velocitatis efficacia creditur,

      Past. 20, 1; Swt. 149, 12.
Etymology
[Cf. Þei rempede þem to reste, Mand. (quoted by Stratmann).]
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