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tó-brǽdan

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-brǽdan, p. de.
to make broad, enlarge, extend, make great in size or number,
of material objects
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  • Hig tóbrǽdaþ hyra healsbéc

    dilatant philacteria sua,

      Mt. Kmbl. 23, 5.
of non-material objects,
to make great, magnify, multiply, increase, improve the condition of a person
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  • Ðeáh heora sý mycle má ðonne úre, þeáh ðú ús tóbrǽdest ongeán hý, and wið hí gefriðast,

      Ps. Th. 11, 9.

  • Ðú tóbrǽdest heorte míne

    dilatasti cor meum,

      Ps. Spl. 118, 32.

  • Tóbrét

    dilatat,

      Kent. Gl. 648.

  • Ðú ná tóbrǽddest fýnd míne ofer mé,

      Ps. Spl. 29, l: 4, 1.

  • Ðú ðín sóðfæst weorc tóbrǽddest

    multiplicasti justitiam tuam.

      Ps. Th. 70, 20.

  • Ða earfoðu mínre heortan synd swýðe tóbrǽd

    (dilatatae),

      24, 15.
to expand, extend, spread out, open wide, distend
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  • Gif ðú ðínes scipes segl ongeán ðone wind tóbrǽdst, Bt. 7, 2

    ; Fox
      18, 32.

  • Mid hú miclum gódum willan Dryhten tóbrǽt

    (expandit)

    ðone greádan his mildheortnesse ongén ða ðe tó him gecierraþ.
      Past. 52; Swt. 405, 9.

  • Hé tóbrǽdde

    (expandit)

    his feðeru.
      Deut. 32, 11.

  • Tóbrǽd ðíne handa swilce (ðú) sceát ástrecce,

      Techm. ii. 122, 24.

  • Tóbrǽd múð ðín

    open thy mouth wide

    (A.
      V. ), Ps. Spl. 80, 9.

  • Áþened, tóbrǽd distenta, i. extenta, tóbrǽde

    destentat.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 141, 22, 23.

  • Tóbrǽddum

    apertis,

      5, 15.
  • Wé sǽton bócum tóbrǽddon. Salm. Kmbl. 863 ; Sal. 431.
to extend, spread abroad, diffuse
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  • Ðeós wyrt wið ða eorðan hyre telgran tóbrǽdeþ,

      Lchdm. i. 324, 3.
  • Tó hwon wilnige gé, ðæt gé eówerne naman tóbrǽdan ofer ðone teóþan dǽl? Bt. 18, 1 ; Fox 62, 25.

  • Ðonne mæg hine scamian ðære brǽdinge his hlísan for ðam hé hine ne mæg furþum tóbrǽdan (tóbrédan, Met. 10, 15) ofer ða nearwan eorþan áne

    brevem replere non valentis ambitum pudebit aucti nominis,

      19; Fox 68, 25.

  • His naman tóbrǽdan geond ealle eorþan,

      30, 1 ; Fox 108, 12.
  • God hafaþ his gemynd on heofonum and on eorðan tóbrǽd. Chr. 979; Erl. 129, 18.

  • Binnan ðǽm feówer hyrnum ðises middangeardes is tóbrǽdd Godes folc

    sancta ecclesia per quatuor mundi partes dilatata tenditur,

      Past. 22 ; Swt. 171, 4.

  • Tóbrǽdde

    diffusa, i. sparsa, dispersa.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 16.
  • III a. intrans. :-- Of ðyson eahta deófles cræftan ealle unþeáwas up áspringaþ and syððan tóbrǽdaþ ealles tó wíde,
      Wulfst. 68, 17.
  • [O. H. Ger. ze-breiten.]
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v.  tó-brédan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-brǽdan.” 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/30604.

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