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searwian

  • verb [ weak ]
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searwian, p. ode
To act with craft or treachery, to feign
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  • Hé sarwaþ

    fingitur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 132, 13.
  • Hió searwaþ

    insidiatur,

      Kent. Gl. 191.
  • Gif preóst ordál misfadige, gebéte ðæt. Gif preóst searwaþ be winde, gebéte ðæt

    if a priest do not conduct an ordeal rightly, let him make 'bót.' If a priest uses deceit in respect to the wrapping up of the hand or arm exposed to the ordeal, let him make 'bót,'

      L. N. P. L. 39, 40; Th. ii. 296, 9-10.
  • Sine searwade

    treasure played the traitor

    (left its possessor (?)),
      Exon. Th. 353, 62; Reim. 37.
  • Searw[a] ð[ú]

    insidieris

    ,
      Kent. Gl. 935.
  • Searwiende

    machinans,

    151.
  • Hé cwæð him tó særwigendum móde (

    insidiously

    ),
      Homl. Th. ii. 308, 6. v. sirwan and next word.
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