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to destroy
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  • Land hý áwéstað and burga forbærnað anð ǽhta forspillað,

      Wlfst, 133, 10.

  • Forspil hý

    disperde eos, Ps. Rdr. 53, 7. ꝥ ic forspille (disperderem )

    of ceastre ealle,
      Ps. Srt. 100, 9.

  • Is nédðearf ꝥ hié man forspille, and mid ordum hié man sleá,

      Bl. H. 189, 29: Ll. Th. i. 304, 20.

  • Hí eów wyllað forspyllan and eówre rýce tówurpan,

      Hml. A. 185, 118.
to destroy by extravagant use, consume wastefully, waste.
of material objects
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  • Hé on ánum dæge mid ungesceáde forspilð þreóra daga oððe feówera andlifene ... ðeáh seó andlifen forspilled wurde,

      Hml. A. 145, 29-32.

  • Forspil feoh for bróþor and freónd

    perde pecuniam propter fratrem et amicum,

      Scint. 148, 5.
of personal or abstract object
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  • Gé eów sylfe and eówre ðeóndan geogoðe fordóþ and forspillað on wíton and on yrmðum,

      Hml. S. 23, 186.
to lose
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  • ꝥ ic nánne þǽrane forspille þe ðú mé sealdest

    quia quos dedisti mihi non perdidi ex ipsis quemquam,

      Jn. 18, 9.

  • He (

    Zacharias) forspilde (perdidit )

    dreámas sprǽce,
      Hy. S. 103, 9.

  • Ic þe londe richtlike bigat and ic it siðen náwer ne forswat ne forspilde (náþer ne forspæc ne forspilde (?);

    see next passage but one

    ),
      Cht. Th. 584, 5.

  • Hí heortan clǽnnesse forspildun (

    perdiderunt

    ),
      An. Ox. 40, 9.

  • Hé ðæt land ne mæg náðer gifan ne syllan, ne forspecan ne forspillan (

    forfeit. Cf. nec cogi debet rectum ejus forspeken nec forspillen, Ll. Th. i. 562, 1) út of ðám minstre, C. D. vi. 190, 17, Þæt ísen befeóll on ðone seáð ... forspilledum (-lorenum, v. l., perdito )

    þám ísene,
      Gr. D. 114, 2.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “for-spillan.” 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/45969.

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