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swingan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
swingan, p. swang, pl. swungon; pp. swungen.
Wright's OE grammar
§249; §498;
to swinge, flog, beat, scourge,
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  • Ðás cild ic swinge

    hos pueros flagello,

      Ælfc. Gr. 7, Zup. 23, 21.

  • Ic swinge verbero, ic eom beswungen

    ver*-*beror,

    5 ;
      Zup. 9, 4.

  • Gif hwylc wíf hire wífman swingþ (flagellis verberavit), L. Ecg. P. ii. 4 ; Th. ii. 184, I. Hig swingaþ eów

    flagellabunt vos.

      Mt. Kmbl. 10, 17: Mk. Skt. 10, 34.

  • Ǽrest hiene mon swong

    primo virgis caesus,

      Ors. 4, 5 ; Swt. 168, 4: Bd. 2, 6; S. 508, 13.

  • Ða nam Pilatus ðone Hǽlend and swang

    (flagellavit)

    hyne.
      Jn. Skt. 19, 1.
  • Hié hine swungon. Blickl. Homl. 23, 31.

  • Mé weras slógon and swungon,

      Andr. Kmbl. 1927; An. 966.

  • Ða deófol hine (

    St. Anthony)

    swungan, ð æt hé ne mihte hine ástyrigean,
      Shrn. 52, 27.

  • Wiþ ðon ðe mon sié mónaþseóc; nim mereswínes fel, wyrc tó swipan, swing mid ðone man, sóna biþ sél. Amen,

      Lchdm. ii. 334, 2.

  • Gyf hit cild sý oððe cniht, swinge hine man

    (vapulet),

      L. Ecg. P. iv. 52 ; Th. ii. 218, 31.
  • Swingon vapulare, Lchdm. iii. 212, 2.

  • He ða fǽmnan hét nacode mid sweopum swingan,

      Exon. Th. 253, 30; Jul. 188: 251, 8; Jul. 142.

  • Hé byþ geseald ðeódum tó swingenne (tó swinganne, Rush.

    ad flagellandum),

      Mt. Kmbl. 20, 19: Exon. Th. 99, ii; Cri. 1623.
  • Hine mid swipum swingende geangsumiaþ. Homl. Th. i. 426, 22.
  • Ðæt hé swá lange swungen wǽre óþþæt hé swylte. Blickl. Homl. 193, 4.
metaphorical,
to chastise, afflict, plague
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  • Ic ðreáge and suinge (swinge,

      Cote. MSS. ) ða ðe ic lufige , . . God suingeþ (swingeþ, Cole. MSS. )
    ǽlc bearn ðe hé underfón wile, Past. 36; Swt. 253, 1-4.
  • Ðone heó ǽr mid wítum swong. Exon. Th. 279, 22 ; Jul. 617.

  • Mid monnum ne biþ swungne

    cum hominibus non flagellabuntur;

    they are not plagued as other men,
      A. V. , Ps. Surt. 72, 5.
to give a blow with the hand
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  • Ðæt deófol cwæð: Swingaþ hine (St. Andrew) on his múð (cf. Sleáþ synnigne St. Andrew ofer seolfes múð,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2601; An. 1302), Blickl. Homl. 243, 2. [Wæs
    ] suungen exalaparetur (cf. wæs fýstslægenu

    exalaparetur,

      32, 2), Wrt. Voc. ii. 107, 75.
without the idea of hurting, to whip a top, cream, etc. ,
beat up
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  • Mid gelǽredre handa hé swang ðone top,

      Ap. Th. 13, 13.

  • Genim mærcsápan and hinde meolc, mæng tósomme and swinge,

      Lchdm. iii. 4, 2.

  • Swyng,

      14, 32.

  • Nime man sealt and þreora ǽgra geolcan, swinge hit swiðe tógædere,

      40, 22.
to strike, dash
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  • Hé swang ðæt fýr on twá

    he drove back the fire on either hand

    (cf. that giswerk warð teswungan, bigan sunnun lioht hédrón an himile,
      Hél. 5634), Cd. Th. 29, 12; Gen. 449.
to beat the wings (?)
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  • Se fugel licgeþ lonnum fæst swíðe swingeþ beats its wings violently
, Salm. Kmbl. 533; Sal. 266. Nis hearpan wyn, ne gód hafoc geond sæl swingeþ (flaps its wings as it sits on the perch; cf the opening lines of the Poema del Cid, where one mark of the desolation of the Cid's home is that the perches are ' sin falcones e sin adtores:' or swingeþ = flies, soars, v. swengan, and cf. for the idea of movement; Bigan úst up stígan, swang geswerk an gemang, Hél. 2243, and
Ger. schwingen to wing, soar, schwinge a wing, pinion: Dan. svinge of a bird to soar) ne se swifta mearh burhstede beáteþ,
    Beo. Th 4520 ; B. 2264.
Etymology
[O. Sax. O. H. Ger. swingan : O. Frs. swinga.]
Similar entries
v. be-, ge-, of-swingan ; swengan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “swingan.” 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/29827.

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