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with gen. ()
to seize, take,
to arrest a person
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  • Gif hé man tó deáðe gefylle . . . his hente mid hreáme (hearme, MS.

    The old Latin version has 'persequatur eum cum clamore.'

    Cf. too: Gif hwá þeóf geméte, and hine áweg lǽte búton hreáme,

    • 392, 15
      • )

    ǽlc þára þe riht wille,

    • Ll. Th. i. 170, 10
      • :
    • 404, II

    (here the Latin version has 'capiat eum cum clamore').

    Se cásere beád þ man swíðe georne sceolde cépan crístenra manna, and gehwá þǽr hé mihte heora be feore hente

    • Hml. S. 23, 49.
to capture an animal
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  • Þá woldon þá hǽþenan he[n]tan þǽre leó, ac heó gelælite ǽfre ǽnne and æune,

    • Hml. S 35, 280
      • .
to take and carry off
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  • Ágeóte man heora blód on ðá eorðan, and swá hwá swá þæs blódes hent and him tó mete macað, hé losað of his folce,

    • E. S. viii. 62, 39
      • .
to get at with a blow, strike with a weapon
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  • Dioclitianus hét hine

    (St. Sebastian)

    lǽdan tó ánum felda and hine þǽr gefæstnian and hentan mid flánum (cf. mid strǽlum ofstician,

    • Shrn. 55, 8
      • ),
    • Hml. S. 5, 424
      • .

  • [Cf. Moyses hente ðe cherl wið hise wond. And he fel dun in dedes bond,

    • Gen. and Ex. 2715.]
with prep, hentan æfter
to try to get
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  • Nime hé leáfe ꝥ hé móte hentan æfter his ágenan

    (licentiam accipiat ut suum audeat perquirere, Lat. vers.),

    • Ll. Th. i. 386, 17
      • .
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[v.
N. E. D. hent.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hentan.” 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/52270.

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