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drepan

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  • Drihten hine drep mid líchamlicere untrumnesse

    Dominus corporali hunc molestia percussit,

      Gr. D. 325, 26.
  • Heó wearð drepen and gestonden on þá breóst mid cancre þǽre wunde

    cancri ulcere in mamilla percussa est,

      279, 26.
  • Mid cwylde drepen and slægen

    mortalitate percussus,

      289, 11.
  • Drepen and gestelled,

      298, 27.
  • Hé wearð drepen in þá sceare

    percussus in inguine,

      324, 14.
  • Hé wæs in feorh dropen,

      B. 2981.
  • On gemynd drepen

    stupefied,

      Gen. 1571.
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[Hí drápen (killed) heom swá . . . Mani þúsen hí drápen mid hungær, Chr. 1137; P. 264, 14, 23. v. N. E. D. drepe. With pp. dropen cf. O. H. Ger. troffan; with pp. drepen cf. Icel. drepinn.]
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