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tó-bregdan

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-bregdan, -brédan; p. -brægd, -brǽd, pl. -brugdon, -brúdon (-brudon ?); pp. -brogden, -bróden (-broden ? in O. and N. tobrode rimes with unsode).
to separate (trans.) by a quick movement,
to pull to pieces (lit. and fig. )
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  • Hú ǽnig mæg gangan in húse stronges and fatu his tóbregdan (diripere), nymþe ǽr gebindaþ se stronge and ðonne hús his tóbrægdeþ

    (diripiat),

    • Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 12, 29.

  • Hé tóbrǽd (dilaceravit) áne león tó sticcum,

    • Jud. 14, 6.

  • Metod tóbrǽd monna sprǽce

    the Lord destroyed the unity of human speech,

    • Cd. Th. 102, 5;
    • Gen. 1695.

  • Hié tóbrugdon blódigum ceaflum fira flǽschoman,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 317;
    • An. 159.

  • Þrié wulfas ánes deádes monnes líchoman styccemǽlum tóbrúdon

    (cadaver sparsum membratim reliquerunt ),

    • Ors. 4, 2;
    • Swt. 160, 21.

  • Ða nicoras tóbrúdon hié,

    • Nar. 11, 11.

  • Hit ongeat his láre swíþe tótorene and swíþe tóbrogdene.

    • Bt. 3, 1;
    • Fox 4, 31 note.

  • Biþ se glencg ágoten and se þrym tóbróden,

    • Wulfst. 263, 8 note.

  • Ðæt hé wǽre from ðám hundum tóbróden,

    • Shrn. 145, 4.
to pull apart
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  • Heora lima man ealle tóbrǽd ǽlc fram óðrum

    their limbs weru torn from one another,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 23, 72.

  • Ðá tóbrǽd Samson bégen his earmas

    Samson wrenched his arms apart,

    • Jud. 15, 14.
to separate (intrans.) by a quick movement, to break off, start from sleep, cf. Icel. bregða svefni to awake
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  • Slǽpe tóbrægd folces weard,

    • Cd. Th. 161, 15;
    • Gen. 2665.

  • Mid ðý heó ðá ðý slǽpe tóbrǽd

    somno excussa,

    • Bd. 4, 23;
    • S. 596, 5.

  • Slǽpe tóbrugdon searuhæbbende,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 3053;
    • An. 1529.

  • Ic gefrægn hæleð slǽpe tóbrédan (-on, MS.),

    • Judth. Thw. 25, 7;
    • Jud. 247.
to separate by making a quick movement with something (?)
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  • Oft hý wordum tóweorpaþ ǽr hý bacum tóbréden

    (before they part and turn their backs on one another,

    (?) cf. Icel. bregða hendi, fótnm, etc.) . .
    • Exon. Th. 345, 20;
    • Gn. Ex. 192.

  • Hi eteþ flesch unsode swich wulves hadde hit tobrode,

    • O. and N. 1008.

  • The fend him tobrayd

    ilium daemonium dissipavit,

    • Wick. Lk. 9, 42.

  • He tobraide his clothes,

    • Gow. ii. 53, 11.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-bregdan.” 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/30609.

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