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for-weorþan

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to become ill
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  • Philippus forwearð on móde, Hml. S. 2, 104. (1 a) of food, to go bad :-- Gif salt forworðes si sal evanuerit, Mt. L. 5, 13. (1 b)

    to come

    to a bad end :-- His geféran ealle forwurdon tó deáðe,
      Ap. Th. 11, 6.
to perish,
of death
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  • Ealle þá ðe sweord nymað, mid swurde hig forweorþað (-wurþað,

    v. l. peribunt ),

      Mt. 26, 52.
  • Fugla briddas forweorðað

    pulli avium in ima merguntur,

      Past. 383, 41.
  • Wyrþigre wrace hié forwurdon,

      Ors. 6, 2; S. 256, 12.
  • Þý lǽs wén sié þæt wé yfele forweorþon,

      Bl. H. 247, 2.
  • Hý sculon æt Seaxena handa forwurþan,

      Chr. 605; P. 23, 7.
  • Hié fornǽh mid ealle forslægene and forwordene wǽron,

      Ors. 2, 2; S. 64, 33.
  • (a α) of an animal's death :-- Ic gedwoledee
of the destruction of things
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  • Ne án loc of eówrum heáfde forwyrð,

      Bl. H. 243, 33.
  • Þǽr forwearþ .cxx. scipa,

      Chr. 877; P. 74, 16.
  • Healdan heora forweorðendan welan

    perituras divitias custodire, Gr. D. 201, 15. (b α) fig. :-- Forweorð peribit (lingua pravorum ),

      Kent. Gl. 342.
in a moral or spiritual sense
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  • Ðonne forwyrð ðín bróður for ðínum ðingum,

      Past. 451, 33.
  • Hé eóde on wésten þǽr ǽr Adam forwearþ,

      Bl. H. 29, 18.
  • Þý lǽs gé forwyrþen (

    pereatis

    ) of wege ryhtum,
      Ps. Rdr. 2, 12.
  • Wé scoldan forweorðan écan deáðe nǽre þæt Críst for ús deáð þrowode,

      Wlfst. 111, 7.
  • On mé earmre is mínes fæder nama reówlíce forworden, Ap. Th. 2, 22. [v. N. E. D. forworth. Goth. fra-wairþan: O. Sax. far-werðan:

    O. H. Ger.

    fer-werdan.]
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