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scyfe

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
scyfe, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§386;
of rapid motion caused by a push (metaph.), precipitation, v. scúfan
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  • Word scyfes

    verba praecipitationis,

      Ps. Lamb. 51, 6.

  • Hié weorðaþ oft áscrencte on ðæm scyfe ðære styringe hira módes ðæt hí hira selfra ne ágon ðý máre geweald ðe óðerra monna motionis impulsu praecipites quaedam velut alienati peragunt, Past. 33, l; Swt. 215, 12, 17. I a. glossing preceps :-- Seó ús on scefe gedwelde teáh mid wegleásum

    quae nos in preceps errore traxit devio,

      Hymn. Surt. 24, 11.
furtherance of a project, the pushing of a matter, prompting, instigation in a good sense, cf. scúfan, V
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  • Ǽlc burhgemet beó be his dihte ge scife swíðe rihte,

      L. I. P. 7; Th. ii. 312, 21.
prompting, instigation in a bad sense, cf. scúfan, VI
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  • Se ðe þurh deófles scyfe on synna befealle,

      L. C. E. 23; Th. i. 374, 9.

  • Befeallen þurh deófles scyfe on heálíce misdǽde,

      Wulfst. 103, 21.
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v. niðer-scyfe.
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v.  scefe scife niþer-scyfe.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “scyfe.” 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/27100.

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  • scyfe, n.

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