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for-scippan

  • verb
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Grammar
for-scippan, to transform, change for the worse.
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  • Forsceóp ... þet líc ... wurdon tó hundum,

    • An. Ox. 26, 61
    • .
  • Þurh ðá ofermódignesse mǽre englas on heofonum wurdon forsceapene tó atelicum deóflum,

    • Wlfst. 145, 23
    • .
  • Scinnan forscepene

    spirits from angels changed to devils,

    • Sat. 72
    • .
Take here for-sceoppan, -sceppan and add
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. forshape.
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v.  for-sceppan.
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