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sweotolian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
sweotolian, swutelian, swytelian; p. ode
to make clear or manifest, to shew, declare
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  • Ǽlc gesceaft ðæt sweotolaþ, ðæt God éce is

    Deum aeternum esse cunctorum degentium commune judicium est,

    • Bt. 42
      • ;
    • Fox 256, 7.

  • Hér swutelaþ on ðison cwyde hú Ædelréd geúðe ðæt Æðeríces cwyde standan móste,

    • Chart. Th. 539, 20: 320, 24: 312, 8.

  • Swytelaþ,

    • 586, 25.

  • Swetelaþ

    expremit,

    • Kent. Gl. 1120.

  • Ðæt ðæt man beháteþ, ðonne man fulluhtes gyrnþ, swytelaþ, ðæt man wile on ǽnne God gelýfan,

    • L. I. P. 24
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 338, 12.

  • Hé ongan swutelian (ostendere) his leorningcnihtum, ðæt hé wolde faran,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 16, 21.
[He schawde and sutelede he wes soð godd,
  • Kath. 1037.
He schawde him and sutelede him seolf to hire,
  • 1834
    • .
Þet hit sutelie in us hwuch was his lif,
  • A. R. 382, 3.
]
to become manifest
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  • Ðín mycele miht manegum swutelaþ,

    • Hy. 9, 32.
Etymology
[
Hit schal sutelin (become manifest) sone, Jul. 18, 4.
Þurh þis suteleð soð al ꝥ ich segge, Kath. 1089.
]
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v. ge-sweotulian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sweotolian.” 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/29730.

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