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gremian

  • verb [ weak ]
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  • Gremið, graemid, gremid

    lacessit,

      Txts. 73, 1170.

  • Grema

    lacesse,

      An. Ox. 46, 52.

  • Gremman

    lacessere,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 112, 50.

  • Gremmende

    lacessiens,

      50, 56.
to irritate, provoke.
the object a person
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  • Hý ðé gremiað

    exacerbaverunt te,

      Ps. Th. 5, 11: Hml. Th. i. 100, 22.

  • Gremede

    exacerbauit (neminem sermonum seueritas ),

      An. Ox. 7, 384: Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 6.

  • Ne græma þú úre godas,

      Hml. S. 7, 109.

  • Ꝥ gé God ne gremian (grymman,

    v. l.

    ),
      Ll. Th. i. 270, 28.

  • Ne gremigen (gremige, v. l.) gé eówru bearn

    nolite ad iracundiam provocare filios vestros,

      Past. 189, 23.

  • Hú hí God gremion,

      Hml. Th. i. 588, 11.
the object an animal
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  • Wyrmgalere galdra sangum gremede

    Marsus (virulentos matrices) incantationum carminibus irritabat, prouocabat,

      An. Ox. 4942.

  • Gremede

    irritat (torvam carmine gypsam ),

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 96, 13.

  • Gremedan

    irritabant i. prouocabant (venenatos aspidum rictus ),

      An. Ox. 4478: Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 57.
to provoke to action.
with prep,
of a muscular movement
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  • Hine mon scel tyhtan and gremian tó spíwanne,

      Lch. ii. 184, 1.
of a course of action
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  • Ne sceole wé þá ðwyran tó úre éhtnysse gremian,

      Hml. Th. i. 554, 5.
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  • Tyht hié and gremeð ðæt irre ðæt hié wealwiað on ðá wédenheortnesse

    impellente ira in mentis vesaniam devolvuntur,

      Past. 288, 6.
to vex, behave ill to, be hostile to
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  • Græmaþ wiþerwinna þínne naman

    irritat adversarius nomen tuum,

      Ps. L. 73, 10.

  • Ðonne hié mon gremeð

    cum gravantur,

      Past. 218, 14.

  • Gif gé nellað forgyfan þám ðe eów gremiað (

    si non dimiseritis hominibus peccata eorum,

      Mt. 6, 15), Hml. Th. i. 266, 32.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. greme.]
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v. ge-gremian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gremian.” 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/51184.

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