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where a building is razed to the ground, is destroyed to its foundations
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  • Ðá sǽde hé þæt his (of the temple) sceolde weorðan ǽghwylc stán grundlinga tóworpen

    dico uobis, non relinquetur hic lapis super lapidem, qui non destruatur,

      Wlfst. 88, 20.

  • Seó burh wearð tóworpen grundlunga, swá swá se Hǽlend sǽde,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 18: Hml. Th. i. 404, 12: Hml. A. 102, 11.

  • Wearð swá micel storm ꝥ eall ꝥ ormǽte weorc wearð tówend grundlunga,

      Hml. S. 31, 1244.

  • Ꝥ tempel grundlunga tófeóll,

      2, 387.

  • Áhreás þæt tempel grundlunga, Hml. Th. i. 72, 5. I a. fig. :-- Þǽre ǽrran gerecednyssa dimhoua grundlunga (

    funditus

    ) fordwinan,
      An. Ox. 1678.
of complete destruction or removal of other objects.
material
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  • Ealle ðá godas grundlunga suncon intó þǽre eorðan,

      Hml. S. 14, 143.
non-material
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  • Bið ǽghwilc syn grundlinga (cf. eallinga funditus, Sch. 77, 13) ádwǽsced

    omnis culpa funditus exstinguitur,

      Bd. 1, 27; Sch. 78, 3.

  • Synna grundlunga (cf. mid ealle, R. Ben. 13, 18) of ádón

    peccata radicitus amputare,

      R. Ben. I. 15, 6.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “grundlinga.” 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/51286.

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