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for-hycgan

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Grammar
for-hycgan, p. -hogde, -hygde, -hygede; pp. -hogd
Take here for-hicgan (where dele -higan), and add:
to despise, scorn a person or thing
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  • Hé hine ne forhyged

    (contemnit),

    • Past. 407, 5
      • .

  • Nalle gié woenæ ꝥte ic forhycgende (-hyccende, R.

    accusaturus)

    sié, is sé ðe forhycað

    (accusat)

    iúih,

    • Jn. L. 5, 45
      • .

  • Þá þe heora sáula forhycggaþ for feós lufan,

    • Bl. H. 63, 8
      • .

  • Þú goda gield forhogdest,

    • Jul. 146
      • .

  • Þú forhygdest ðá gewítendan

    sprevisti discedentes,

    • Ps. L. 118, 118
      • .

  • Ne forhogde hé hí,

    • Past. 405, 32
      • :
    • 421, 6
      • :
    • 441, 29
      • :
    • Jul. 620
      • :
    • Gú. 713
      • .

  • Forhygde,

    • Bl. Gl.

  • Forhygede,

    • Ps. Spl. 52, 7.

  • Hí his gebod forhogdon,

    • Past. 405, 31
      • .

  • Forhygedon,

    • Hml. Th. i. 300, 19
      • .

  • Ne forhyge þú

    non despicies,

    • Ps. L. 50, 19
      • .

  • Ne forhycgað wísdóm,

    • Bt. 16, 1
      • ;
    • F. 50, 26
      • .

  • Þý lǽs hé forhycge heánspédigran,

    • Crä. 26
      • .

  • Forhyggean (-hycgean, v. l.) ðone geférscipe ðára synfulra,

    • Past. 103, 14
      • .

  • Forhycgan

    spernere,

    • Ps. Th. 68, 34
      • .

  • Forhyccan,

    • Dóm. L. 90.

  • Scylda héht forhycganne

    vitia praecepit abscidenda,

    • Mt. p. 18, 5
      • .

  • Tó forhygcanne

    contemnendum,

    • Jn. p. 7, 12.
intrans.
To feel or shew contempt:
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  • Forhegeþ

    contempsit,

    • Kent. Gl. 631
      • .

  • Ðá uetetlíce forhogdon

    illi autem neglexerunt,

    • Mt. L. 22, 5
      • .
to disdain, scorn to do something.
with a case
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  • Ðás gerás tó wyrcanne and ðá ilco ne tó forhycganne

    (omittere),

    • Lk. L. R. 11, 42
      • :
    • Mt. L. 23, 23
      • .
with a clause
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  • Ne forhogde (-hogode, v. l.), hé ðæt bé hit eft gecierde,

    • Past. 99, 10.

  • Hé forhogde ðæt hé hit gehiérde

    audire contemsit,

    • 295, 16
      • .

  • Ꝥ folc ne sceal forhycggan ꝥ hí tó him hí geeáþmédon,

    • Bl. H. 47, 30
      • .
with a case and a clause in apposition
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  • Ic þæt forhicge, þæt ic sweord bere,

    • B. 435
      • :
    • Ph. 552
      • .
with infin.
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  • Wíf forhycgeaþ (-hicgaþ, v. l.) heora bearn fédan

    mulieres filios nutrire contemnunt,

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • Sch. 80, 11, 19
      • .
with dat. infin.
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  • Þá þe cyrican forlǽtaþ, and forhycggaþ þá Godes dreámas tó gehérenne,

    • Bl. H. 41, 35
      • .

  • Góddǽda hý forhogdun tó dónne,

    • Cri. 1288
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. far-huggian
:
O. H. Ger. ferhuggen contemnere, spernere.
]
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(v. for-hogd).
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “for-hycgan.” 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/45778.

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