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  • Áscúfið

    praecipitat,

      Txts. 89, 1644.

  • Ásceáfon weg

    explodit, excludit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 29, 72.
literal, where an object is moved
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  • Hé hit ásceáf fram his múðe,

      Hml. Th. ii. 254, 17.

  • Út áscúfen

    eliminant,

      An. Ox. 4697.

  • Scipu út áscúfan,

      Chr. 897; P. 91, 13.

  • Hí woldon hine niðer áscúfan (of clife),

      Hml. Th. ii. 236, 34.

  • Ásceófan,

      Hml. S. 18, 350.

  • Beseah hé tó þǽre sceande (Iezebel) up and hét hí ásceófon underbæc,

      345.

  • Wæs ic ána út ásceofen

    ,
      23 b, 415.

  • Betwux þám leónum áscofen,

      Hml. Th. ii. 174, 4.
figurative,
to drive away, repel
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  • Hig þæne deófol fram heom áscúfað,

      Angl. viii. 330, 25.

  • Hé þá strǽle þára áwerigdra gásta him fram ásceáf,

      Guth. 44, 1.

  • Áscýfað yfelgiornisse

    deponentes malitiam,

      Rtl. 25, 23.

  • Ꝥte þú áscúfe (retrudas) from mé ðá ungesewenlican næglas,

      Lch. i. lxxi, 3.

  • Ǽlc gesceaft onscunað ꝥ ꝥ hire wiþerweard biþ, and tiolaþ ꝥ hit him ꝥ from áscúfe,

      Bt. 16, 3; F. 56, 5.
to expel
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  • Beó út áscofen

    trudatur,

      An. Ox. 823.

  • Of his cyneríce áscofen,

      Hml. Th. i. 488, 16.

  • Hí beóð út áscofan

    exterminabuntur,

      Ps. L. 36, 11.

  • Mancynn wearð ásceofen of myrhðe neorxna wanges,

      Hml. Th. i. 154, 11: Bl. H. 17, 15.
to drive forward, impel, overthrow
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  • Áscúf

    praecipita,

      Ps. L. 54, 10.

  • Áscoben

    impulsus,

      Bl. Gl.
to give up
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  • Se cyning þone wítegan him tó handum ásceáf,

      Hml. Th. i. 570, 28.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ar-sciuban alienare.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-scúfan.” 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/38996.

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