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be-stelan

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Dele translation of passage from Chronicle, and add:
to rob
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  • Móde bestolene,

    • Rä. 12, 6.
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v.bi-stelan in Dict.
to go secretly, stealthily, to steal,
with reflexive pronoun
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  • Hé árás, and bestæl hine tó him and forcearf his mentles ǽnne læppan

    occulte surrexit, et oram chlamydis ejus abscidit,

    • Past. 197, 21
      • .

  • Se here hiene on niht up bestæl,

    • Chr. 865
      • ;
    • P. 68, ii.

  • Hé hiene áweg bestæl,

    • Ors. 5, 2
      • ;
    • S. 218, 31.
to steal away from (dat.):
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    Hiene bestæl se here intó Werhám Wesseaxna fierde . . . hié hié nihtes bestǽlon þǽre fierde,
    • Chr. 876
      • ;
    • P. 74, 7-11
      • .
without pronoun
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  • Bistilð sió slǽwd on ús

    mentis desidia furtim torpore mactatur,

    • Past. 283, 3.

  • Hé bestæl út mid his stæfe hoppegende,

    • Hml. S. 21, 417
      • .

  • Se þearfa bestæl in tó Martine,

    • 31, 910
      • .

  • Bestæl (-steal) se here úp fram scipon,

    • Chr. 1004
      • ;
    • P. 135, 27.
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. be-steal.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-stelan.” 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/40167.

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