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swinge

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
swinge, swynge (both forms occur in the Pastoral), an; f.
A stripe, stroke.
literal, a stroke with a scourge or rod
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  • Sc̃p. Petrus hine mid grimmum swingum swong and þreáde (flagellis artioribus afficiens) . . . Cwæþ him eác tó: ' Ic bende and swingan (vincula, verbera) ðrowade' . . . Ðá wæs Laurentius mid ðæs Apostoles swingum (flagellis) swíþe gebylded; cwom and eáwde mid hú miclum swingum

    (verberibus)

    hé ðreád wæs,
      Bd. 2, 6; S. 508, 12-24.
  • Bedrífe hine ( wíteþeów, v. Grmm. R. A. 703) tó swingum,

      L. In. 48 ; Th. i. 132, 10: 54; Th. i. 138, 4.
  • Ða hálgan men geðafedon on ðisse worlde monige swyngean and monige bendas and carcernu

    sancti verbera experti, insuper et vincula et carceres,

      Past. 30; Swt. 205, 12.
metaphorical, chastisement, afflicting stroke
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  • Geféged tó ðǽm gefógstánum on ðære Godes ceastre bútan ðæm hiéwete ǽlcre suingean (swingan, Cote. MSS. )

    sine disciplinae percussione,

      Past. 36; Swt. 253, 20.
  • Sunu mín ne ágiémeleása ðú Godes suingan (swingan, Cote.

    MSS.) fili mi, noli negligere disciplinam Domini, Swt.

      253, 2.
  • Ic neósiu in swingum

    (verberibus)

    synne heara,
      Ps. Surt. 88, 33.
Etymology
[With a swinge of his sworde (he) swappit hym in the face, Destr. Tr. 1271. O. H. Ger. swinga flagellum: Ger. schwinge a winnow, fan.]
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v. sweng, and next word.
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v.  swynge.
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  • swinge, n.