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scofettan

  • verb [ weak ]
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scofettan, p. te
Wright's OE grammar
§657;
To drive hither and thither
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  • For ðam hit is openlíce cúð ðætte sió úterre ábisgung ðissa woruldþinga ðæs monnes mód gedréfþ and hine scofett (scofeð, Cott. MSS. : cf. sciéð, 3rd pers. sing. of sceótan, Swt. 70, 7) hidres ðædres óþ þæt hé áfielþ of his ágnum willan

    cum indubitanter constet, quod cor externis occupationum tumultibus impulsum a semetipso corruat,

      Past. 22, 1; Swt. 169, 13.
  • Cf. scúfan.
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  • scofettan, v.