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torfian

  • verb [ weak ]
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torfian, p. ode.
In the first instance to throw with turf at a person (cf. stǽnan), and then with stones or the like; so Icel. has tyrfa með grjóti ok með torfi, and Swed. tyrva med stenom. Afterwards in a more general sense to throw.
to throw at an object, strike with a missile, to stone a person
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  • Seó clǽnnes ða fúlnesse mid flinte torfaþ

    pudicitia libidinem cum saxo percutit,

    • Gl. Prud. 12 a.

  • Ða deóflu mé swíðe geegsiaþ and eác swylce torfiaþ

    • Homl. Skt. i. 3, 424.

  • Hí námon stánas, ðæt hí hine torfodon,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 236, 21.

  • Hí mid stánum torfodon ðone soðfæstan Iacob,

    • 300, 18.

  • Hig námon stánas tó ðam ðæt hig woldon hyne torfian

    tulerunt lapides, ut iacerent in eum,

    • Jn. Skt. 8, 59:

    ut lapidarent eum,

    • 10, 31.

  • Ða leásan gewitan hine ongunnon ǽrest tó torfienne,

    • Homl. Th. i. 50, 15.
to throw, cast,
with acc. of thing thrown
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  • Hé geseah hú ðæt folc hyra feoh torfude on ðone tollsceamul, and manega welige torfudon fela

    aspiciebat quomodo turba iactaret aes in gazophilacium, et multi diuites iaciabant multa,

    • Mk. Skt. 12, 41.
without an object
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  • Ic torfige oððe sceóte

    iacio,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 28, 6;
    • Zup. 178, 16.

  • Ða Frencisce men torfedon tówærd ðam weofode,

    • Chr. 1083;
    • Erl. 217, 17.

  • Samuel þe sticches toruede (tarueden, 1st MS.) oueral þan strede,

    • Laym. 16703.
Etymology
[
Icel. tyrfa to pelt a person with something.
]
Similar entries
v. of-, tó-torfian; turf, and next word.
Linked entries
v.  a-torfian ge-torfian.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “torfian.” 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/30791.

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