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á-breóþan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
§239; §494;
Substitute for all but the two instances from Ælfc. Gr. :
intrans.
To degenerate, deteriorate, fall away, fail,
of persons,
physical
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  • Oft hyre hleór ábreóðeð

    her good looks ore lost,

      Gn. Ex. 66.
moral
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  • Se deófol sendeð earhscype, swá ðæt se man ábrýð æt ǽlcere þearfe,

      Wlfst. 53, 13.

  • Gif hé ábrýð on ðǽre éhtnysse,

      Hml. Th. i. 250, 21.

  • Se yfela, swá hé oftor on ðǽre fandunge ábrýð, swá hé forcúðra bið,

      268, 29.

  • Sume menn . . . ðonne seó hǽte cymð, ðæt is seó costung, ðonne ábreóðað hí (

    these in time of temptation fall away,

      Lk. 8, 13), ii. 90, 34.
  • Ðæt teóðe werod ábreáð and áwende on yfel, i. 10, 18.

  • Ðá seonde hé ðæt man sceolde ðá scipu tóheáwan; ac hí ábruðon, ðá ðe hé tó þóhte

    (those he looked to failed in their duty

    ),
      Chr. 1004; P. 135, 30.

  • Hí sume æt ðǽre neóde ábruðon, and fram ðám cynge gecyrdon,

      1101; P. 237, 6.

  • Ðæt se man ábreóðe on ǽlcere neóde náhtlíce ǽfre,

      Wlfst. 59, 12.

  • God ús gescylde, ðæt wé ne ábreóðon on ðǽre fandunge,

      Hml. Th. i. 268, 11.

  • Ábroþen

    degener, ignobilis,

      An. Ox. 46, 2.

  • Ábroþen (abroten, MS., but see Angl. viii. 450) vel dwǽs vafer vel fatuus vel

    socors,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 62.

  • Apostatan ábroðene,

      Wlfst. 164, 10 note.
of actions,
to fail, come to nought
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  • Ábreóðe his angin,

      By. 242.
trans, and wk. To destroy
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  • Ábreóþeð

    perdet,

      Mt. R. 21, 40.

  • Se cyning ábriódde (perdidit) myrðra, 22, 7. [Si lage swið abreað

    this law degenerated very much,

      O. E. Hml. i. 235, 29.
    ]
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v.  a-broten á-broþenness.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-breóþan.” 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/37386.

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