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  • Angin

    origo.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 128, 42.

  • Of anginne

    ex integra,

      145, 4.

  • Tó anginne, tó edstaþelungum

    ad lumina vitae,

      An. Ox. 2214.

  • Toanginnum ad lumina (v. Hpt. Gl. 507, 61, which has

    limina),

    4342.

  • Seó wyrt gehnǽceþ ðá anginnu

    (the beginnings of the disease)

    þám wæterseócum,
      Lch. i. 272, 15.
an enterprise, undertaking, attempt
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  • ꝥ angin

    (building a fleet] wearð tídlice þurhtogen, Ors. 4, 6; S. 172, 3. ꝥ ꝥ angin (a war )

    nǽre gestilled,
      6, 4; S. 260, 5.

  • Romulus hiora anginn

    (founding Rome)

    geunclǽnsode mid his bróðor slege,
      2, 2; S. 64, 23.

  • Gif hwylc man úre angin

    (writing Gulhlac's life)

    and weorc tǽle,
      Guth. 4, l.
persistent effort, enterprise, endeavour, pertinacity
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  • þára þegna angin . . . ꝥ hié noldon þæs weallgebreces geswícan

    the pertinacity of the thanes in not desisting from breaking down the wall.

      Ors. 3, 9; S. 134, 27.

  • Ðæt hé ðá medwiisan tó máran angienne (

    ad majora)

    gespóne,
      Past. 205, 17.

  • Hú God þá mǽstan ofermétto and þæt mǽste angin on swá heánlice ofermétto (

    the extreme perseverance in such contemptible pride ?

    ) geniðerade,
      Ors. 2, 5; S. 84, 11.

  • Anginna pertinacia, Kent. Gl. 1170. IIIa. practice of a rite,

    study

    :-- Nǽfre nán man ne geþrístlǽce ǽnigne deófles bígencg tó dónne, ne on wiccedóme, ne on ǽnegum ídelum anginne,
      Hml. A. 143, 123.

  • Forsægenum þám onginnum (studiis; v. l. bígengum) þára bðccræfta. Gr. D. 95, 26. ꝥ hé forléte þá ongin þǽra bóccræfta

    relictis literarum studiis,

      96, 19.
attempt on,
attack
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  • Ne becume mé fót ł angin ofermódignesse

    non veniat mihi pes superbiae,

      Ps. L. 35, 12.

  • Onginnum

    inceptis (machinamentorum).

      An. Ox. 4709.
gesture, action
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  • Angin

    gesticulatio,

      An. Ox. 2872.

  • Hé fǽringa feóll tó þǽre eorðan mid egeslicum anginne,

      Chr. 1042 ; P. 162, 14.

  • Anginnum

    gestibus,

      An. Ox. 7, 241: 8, 180.
action, proceedings, behaviour, treatment
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  • Þá hé ðæs cáseres myclan hreówsunga geseah, him ꝥ hreów and his ꝥ sárlice anginn (

    his piteous proceedings

    ).
      Hml. S. 23, 402.

  • Hé began tó dreccenne mid dyrstigum anginne þá bisceopas

    he troubled the bishops by his audacious treatment of them,

      37, 34.

  • His cempan hine gelǽhton mid dyrstigum anginne

    (treated him with the utmost audacity),

      Hml. Th. ii. 252, 24.

  • Hí tígdon þá fét tógædere mid gramlicum anginne,

      Hml. S. 35, 166.
  • Hí woldon Egeam ácwellan and álǽdan ðone apostol of ðám cwearterne. Ðá cwæð Andreas: ' Ne ástyrige gé Drihten tó yrsunge mid eówerum anginne,' Hml. Th. i. 592, 4.

  • Mid þǽm þe þá burgware swá geómorlic angin hæfdon

    while the citizens were engaged in such melancholy proceedings,

      Ors. 4, 5; S. 166, 15.
  • [O. H. Ger. ana-ginn(i) initium.] See also ongin in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “an-gin.” 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/38722.

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