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swylt

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
swylt, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§225; §387;
Death, destruction.
of the death of the body
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  • Swylt háligra

    mors sanctorum,

      Ps. Th. 115, 5.
  • Ende becwom, swylt æfter synnum,

      Beo. Th. 2514; B. 1255.
  • On galgan rídan, seomian æt swylte,

      Exon. Th. 329, 14; Vy. 34.
  • Deáðberende gyfl (

    the forbidden fruit

    ) ða sinhíwan tó swylte geteáh,
      153, 10; Gú. 823.
  • Swylt settan ðínum esnum

    to put thy servants to death,

      Ps. Th. 78, 2.
  • Swylt ætfæstan,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2695; An. 1350.
  • Swilt þrowian, Apstls. Kmbl. 142; Ap. 71. ¶

    The word often occurs with somewhat of a personal sense as the subject of

    niman, forniman :-- Ǽr ðec swylt nime, deáð for duguðe,
      Exon. Th. 257, 31; Jul. 255: Elen. Kmbl. 892; El. 447.
  • Ðǽr Seón cyning swylt dreórig fornam,

      Ps. Th. 135, 20: Beo. Th. 2877; B. 1436.
  • Ealle swylt fornam, druron dómleáse, deáðrǽs forféng,

      Andr. Kmbl. 1988; An. 996: Exon. Th. 283, 5; Jul. 675: 477, 19; Ruin. 27.
of the second death,
the perdition of the soul
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  • Hí leahtrum fá, lége gebundne, swylt þrowiaþ . . . ðæt is éce cwealm,

      Exon. Th. 94, 14; Cri. 1540.
Etymology
[Cf. Góth. swulta-wairþja lying at the point of death: Icel. sultr hunger, famine.]
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v.  swilt.
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  • swylt, n.