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higian

  • verb [ weak ]
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higian, l. hígian,
Wright's OE grammar
§536;
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  • Hé hígode oððe tilode

    nititur,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 69
      • .

  • Hîgien wê

    contendamus,

    • 24, 36
      • .

  • Hígiendre

    intento,

    • 48, 63
      • .
with preps.,
in strive after, to, towards,
aefter
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  • Hú mæg ꝥ yfel beón ꝥte ǽlces monnes ingeþanc . . . æfter hígaþ and wilnaþ tó begitanne

    neque enim vile quiddam . . . quod adipisci omnium fere mortalium laborat intentio,

    • Bt. 24, 4
      • ;
    • F. 86, 13
      • .

  • Ðæt ierfe ðæt gé ǽrest æfter hiégiað (hígiað, v. l.)

    hereditas ad quam festinatur in principio,

    • Past. 331, 24
      • .

  • Nota þæs wísdómes þe þú habbae . . . and híga georne æfter máran,

    • Solil. H. 47, 17
      • .

  • Is ǽlcum þearf ꝥ hé hígie eallan mægne æfter þǽre méde,

    • Bt. 37, 2
      • ;
    • F. 188, 16
      • .
on
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  • Ne hîgion hî on feohgafole usuris nequaquam incumbant,

    • Chrd. 76, 32
      • .
tó.
of movement
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  • Hé hîgode tó þǽre stówe

    ad locum tetendit,

    • Gr. D. 99, 20
      • .
of effort, endeavour, &c.
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  • Hé hiégað (hígað, v.l.) tó andweard-nesse his Scippendes

    ad auctoris speciem anhelat,

    • Past. 86, 10
      • .

  • Hé hígode tó þǽre lufan þæs heofonlican éþles

    ad amorem coelestis patriae exarsit,

    • Gr. D. 11, 5
      • .

  • Ðæt ðá weras hígien (hígigen, v.1.) tó máran byrðene

    ut viros magna exerceant.

    • Past. 178, 17.
wiþ (gen.):
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  • Hé hígað wið ðæs ðæt hé wolde hú hé eallum monnum wunderlicost dúhte

    satagit ut mirabilis cunctis innotescat,

    • Past. 463, 36
      • .

  • Wiþ þæs ic wát þú wilt hîgian.

    • Bt. ll, 2
      • ;
    • F. 34, 8
      • .
with dat. infin.
to strive to do,
  • Past. 105, 14
    • (in Dict.).
with clause
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  • Hié hîgiað ealle mægene ðæt hié ðæt gedwellen ðæt óðre menn ryhtlícé ongieten habbað

    student summopere ab aliis recte intellecta destruere,

    • Past. 365, 23
      • .

  • Tó þám ꝥ þú hígie ꝥ þú mæge becuman tó þám gesǽlþum þe éce þurh-wuniaþ,

    • Bt. 22, 2
      • ;
    • F. 78, 18
      • .
Similar entries
v. ofer-hígian, on-hígian.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “higian.” 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/52474.

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