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forþ-gang

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forþ-gang, (-geong).
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a going forth of a place
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  • Forðgang

    egressio,

    • Ps. L. 18, 7.
a going forth to a place
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  • Hire forbeád þone forðgang (-gong, v. l.) seó sceomu tó þǽre cyrichálgunge

    cum processionem imperaret verecundia,

    • Gr. D. 72, 16.
a going on, course, progress
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  • Forðganges nép,

    • Exod. 469.

  • In forðgange (-geonge, v. l.) þæs ǽrendgewrites

    in processu epistolae,

    • Bd. 1, 13
      • ;
    • Sch. 36, 25.
successful progress, success
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  • Úre ágen cyre næfð nǽnne forðgang, búton hé beó gefyrðrod þurh þone

    • Ælmihtigan, Hml. Th. i. 210, 12
      • :
    • ii. 340, 28.

  • Gif hé on þám gástlican gefeohte forðgang habban sceall,

    • Hml. S. 26, 856. ꝥte hé
    é
in a local sense, an exit, a passage (of part of the body)
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  • Him eóde se innoð út æt his forðgange,

    • Hml. S. 16, 207.

  • Se deófol ne móste faran þurh þone múð út, ac fúllíce férde þurh his forðgang út,

    • 31, 547.
a privy
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  • Forðgang

    secessum,

    • Hpt. 33, 239, 22.
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v. út-gang.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “forþ-gang.” 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/46042.

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