Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

ymb-þencan

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ymb-þencan, p. -þóhte
To consider
Show examples
  • On óðre wísan sint tó manienne ða ðe mid fǽrlíce luste bióð oferswíðde, on óðre ða ðe lange ymbþenceaþ and ðeahtiaþ and swá weorðaþ beswicene

    aliter admonendi sunt, qui repentina concupiscentia superantur, atque aliter qui in culpa ex consilio ligantur

    ,
      Past. 56; Swt. 429, 34.
  • Ic ymbðóhte

    decernam

    ,
      Mt. Kmbl. p. 1, 3.
  • Ne beó gé ymbeþencende hú oððe hwæt gé specon

    nolite solliciti esse qualiter aut quid respondeatis,

      Lk. Skt. 12, 11.
Etymology
[Þatt te birrþ ummbeþennkenn hu þu mihht cwemenn þin Drihhtin, Orm. 1240. He umthoght him what was best, Met. Homl. 79, 26.]
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ymb-þencan, v.