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cídan

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Wright's OE grammar
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to chide, reprove, rebuke.
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  • Wið ðone ðe him cít

    contra corripientem,

      Past. 185, 14.
  • Mid eáðmóde ingeðonce ðú mé cíddesð

    humili intentione reprehendis,

      23, 10.
  • Seó menigu . . . cíddon ðám blindan,

      Hml. Th. i. 156, 10.
  • Cíd him

    increpa illum,

      Lk. 17, 3.
  • Gé him sculon cídan swá bréðer

    corripite ut fratrem,

      Past. 357, 8.
  • Cóm Nathan tó cídanne ðǽm cyninge

    Nathan arguere regent venerat,

      185, 17.
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  • Cocc þá wiþsacendan cít

    gallus negantes arguit,

      Hy. S. 7, 3.
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  • Ðá men cíddon ongeán ðone blindan (cf. 156, 10 above),

      Hml. Th. i. 152, 17.
  • Wið ðone tó cídanne ðe yfel déð

    si male acta corriperent,

      Past. 355, 22.
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  • Þreá and wítna and hálsa and cíd (

    increpa

    ),
      R. Ben. 13, 9.
  • Cíd mid wordum,

      Hml. A. 12, 307.
  • On ðæs cídendan monnes móde,

      Past. 357, 1.
to blame unjustly, speak against, speak angrily.
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  • Uncer hláford hlýdde þǽrúte and cídde,

      Hml. A. 207, 395.
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  • Se mann geunrótsað for his ǽhta lyre, and cíd þonne wið God,

      Hml. S. 16, 292.
  • Maria and Aaron cíddon wið Moises for his wífe

    locuta est Maria et Aaron contra Moysen propter uxorem ejus,

      Num. 12, 1.
  • Þæt gé cíddon wið Moises

    detrahere Moysi,

    8.
to dispute, complain about
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  • Ne cíden (

    causentur

    ) nó þá munecas ymb þá deáge oþþe greátnesse hyra reáfa,
      R. Ben. 89, 14.
to quarrel
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  • Cídde

    altercaretur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 62: 5, 61.
  • Getugun ł cédun

    litigabant,

      Jn. R. 6, 52.
Etymology
[Dele 'Ger. kiden . . .sound.']
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v. be-, ofer-cídan.
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