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tówendan

  • verb [ weak ]
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tówendan, p. de
To overthrow, upset, subvert, overturn
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  • Hé tówende

    evertit, Hpt. Gl.

      459, 52.

  • Tówendum

    erutis, subversis,

      433, 44.
with reference to material objects,
where the object is not of great extent,
to overthrow, demolish
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  • Ðá tówende se hálga wer ðæt deófolgild grundlunge, Homl.

    Th.

    ii.
      164, 16.

  • Ðá tówende se biscop ð æt weofod,

      508, 5.

  • Hæfde se deófol tówend ðone weall

    the devil had thrown down the wall,

      166, 19.

  • Heora deófolgild wearð tówend,

      Homl. Skt. i. 22, 158.
where the object is of great extent,
to overthrow, destroy
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  • God ealne ðone eard tówende

    Dominus subvertit omnem regionem,

      Gen. 19, 25.

  • Ðá tówænde se cyning heora winsuman burh,

      Homl. Ass. 102, 8.

  • Hí tówendou ðæt tempel,

      68, 83.

  • Hig heora burga tówendon

    subversis urbibus,

      Num. 21, 3.

  • Ðæt ic ða burh ne tówende

    ut non subvertant urbem.

      Gen. 19, 21.
with reference to non-material objects, to destroy by changing, to repeal a law, abrogate, abolish, overthrow, destroy
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  • Crist tówyrpþ ðás stówe and tówent ða gesetnysse ðe ús Moyses tǽhte,

      Homl. Th. i. 46, 3.

  • Hí woldon tówendon ealle ða gesetuessa ðe Domicianus hæfde ǽr geset,

      Ors. 6, 10; Bos. 120, 32 note.
in a figurative sense
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  • Háwa ðæt se inra wind ðe ne tówende,

      Homl. Th. ii. 392, 32.
Etymology
[A sutare þet haueð forloren his el, he towent euerich strea uort he beo ifunden, A. R. 324, 18. Mid þusend-feld wrenches he þe herte towendeð,
    O. E. Homl. ii. 191, 26.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tówendan.” 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/30929.

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