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á-búgan

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Add: to bow, bend, turn,
of motion (lit. and fig.)
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  • Hé tó eorðan ábeáh,

    • Hml. S. 14, 134
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  • Ðá ábeáh seó módor tó hire bearne,

    • 25, 174
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  • Hwæþer þé of móde ábeáh

    has it escaped your memory?,

    • Gr. D. 40, 24
      • .
where motion indicates reverence :--
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  • Hí on cneówum ábúgað tó his dǽdum bánum,

    • Chr. 979
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    • P. 123, 27
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    • Hy. 7, 10
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  • Hí worhton fela gedwimera on anlícnessum and ðǽrtó ábugan,

    • Wlfst. 11, 5
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  • Men sceolon ábúgan tó gehálgodre róde,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 306, 21
      • .
of action,
yielding, submission
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  • Ðám wé sceolon ábúgan, and hé ne ábýhð ná ús,

    • Hml. A. 8, 211
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  • Nó ábeág

    non cessit,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 26
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  • Ábeáh Uhtred eorl tó him,

    • Chr. 1013
      • ;
    • P. 143, 14
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  • Ealle men him tó ábugon and him áðas swóron,

    • 1086
      • ;
    • P. 222, 12: 221, 31
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  • Ðá nolde seó burhwaru ábúgan ac heóldan mid fullan wíge ongeán,

    • 1013
      • ;
    • P. 143, 27
      • :
    • Hml. S. 25, 119
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  • Ðæt folc nolde Gode ábúgan

    Deo non cesserant,

    • Ors. 1, 7
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    • S. 38, 17
      • :
    • Hml. S. 25, 170
      • :
    • Hml. Th. ii. 304, 20
      • :
    • Wlfst. 197, 9
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  • Hé wiste ðæt se man ábúgan

    (yield to temptation)

    wolde,

    • Angl. vii. 24, 224
      • .
abandonment
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  • Ðá ðe ábúgað

    (declinant)

    from bebodum ðínum,

    • Ps. L. 118, 21
      • .
of shaping, to bend, curve; fig. to be humble
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  • Heó wæs ábogen

    erat inclinata,

    • Lk. 13, 11
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  • Ábogenre, eádmódre

    cernua, i. humilis,

    • An. Ox. 1278
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  • Ábogene

    dimissa, i. humilia,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 31
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-búgan.” 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/37395.

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