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hírsumian

  • verb [ weak ]
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  • Hýrsumian

    obtemperare,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 63, 8
      • .

  • Hírsumiendum

    parentibus,

    • 67, 28
      • .
to obey a person
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  • Hérsumað

    obedit (malus linguae iniquae),

    • Kent. Gl. 589
      • .

  • Hérsumað

    optemperat (fallax labiis mendacibus),

    • 590
      • .

  • Be ðám ðæt ǽlc óðrum hýrsumige

    ut obedientes sibi sint invicem fratres,

    • R. Ben. 130, 10, 14
      • .

  • Gif gé hæfdon geleáfan ... hit hýrsumode

    (obediret)

    eów,

    • Lk. 17, 6.
to obey a person in authority, civil or ecclesiastical:
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  • Hú ðá kyningas Godes ǽrendwrecum hérsumedon (hír-, v. l.),

    • Past. 3, 6
      • .

  • Þæt ealle Rómáne him

    (the senate)

    hírsumeden,

    • Ors. 2, 4
      • ;
    • S. 72, 4
      • .

  • ꝥ edleán þe ðú gehéte ðám monnum þe ðé heórsumian woldan,

    • Bt. 3, 4
      • ;
    • F.6, 20
      • .
where the Deity is the object of obedience:
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  • ꝥé ealle gesceafta heórsumiaþ and þá gesetnessa þínra beboda healdaþ

    • Bt. 4
      • ;
    • F. 8, 8.

  • Drihten cwyð, 'Of eáres hlyste hé hýrsumode

    (obedivit)

    mé,'

    • R. Ben. 19, 21
      • .

  • Ðá kyningas Gode hérsumedon (hír-, v. l.),

    • Past. 3, 6.
of a people,
to be subject to another:
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  • Þæt Crécisce and þæt Affricanisce wǽron swá swá hié him hiérsumedon and him underþiéded wǽre,

    • Ors. 2, 1
      • ;
    • S. 60, 8
      • .
to obey a thing.
an order, injunction
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  • Gebudon him Perse þæt hié hæfden iii winter sibbe wiþ hié

    (rex Persarum quiescere in pace Graeciam praecepit)

    ... Hié þá lustlíce þǽre sibbe hírsumedan

    (they submitted to the peace imposed upon them),

    • Ors. 3, 1
      • ;
    • S. 94, 26
      • .
a feeling, desire, an impulse, &c.
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  • Hí ágenum lustum and heora gítsunge fyliað and hýrsumiað

    propriis voluptatibus et gule illecebris servientes,

    • R. Ben. 9, 24
      • .

  • Þæt hé ágenum lustum ne hýrsumige

    non voluptatibus suis obediens,

    • 20, 12
      • .
to serve
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  • Gif hé tóbræc ǽnig þing on þǽre hýrsumnesse þe hé on hýrsumode, áþer on kycenan ..., oðþe on ǽnigum óðerum craefte þe hé mid líchomlicum geswince on hýrsumode,

    • R. Ben. 71, 16-72, 1.
to serve God, follow a religious life
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  • Twégen hálige menn þe hýrsumedon Gode on ancersettle wuniende,

    • Chr. 1086
      • ;
    • P. 218, 33
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hírsumian.” 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/52581.

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