hweorfan
- verb
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Þá gástas þe for Gode hweorfað,
- Gn. C. 59.
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Lond-rihtes *-* mót monna ǽghwylc ídel hweorfan,
- B. 2888.
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Holt hweorfende,
- Rä, 57, 3.
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Hweorfende
spatiantes,
- Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 74. (1 a) fig. of non-material objects :--
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Hwiðer hweorfað wé (
whither shall we turn
) . . . gif wé swícað þé ?,- An. 405.
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Hwearf hé tó healle swá hé hraðost meahte,
- Az. 166: Sat. 190.
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Hwurfon hæleð geonge tó þám hǽðenan foran,
- Dan. 434.
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Hé wæs miclum geswenced ǽr hé þanon hwurfe,
- Chr. 982 ; P. 124, 29.
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Þú scealt hweorfan of earde þínum,
- Gen. 1018 : Wal. 81.
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Hweorfan tó þis enge lond,
- Cri. 31.
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Þider hweorfan, Dan. 203. ¶ with reflexive dative :-- Hé him siþþan hwearf tó Róme
postea quam Romam venit,
- Ors. 5, 12 ; S. 242, 27.
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Þæt fýr scýde tó þám þe þá scylde worhton, hwearf (hweorf, MS. ) on þá hǽðenan hæftas fram þám hálgum cnihton, Dan. 267. (2 α) where the point to which is that from which motion originally took place,
to return, go back
:-- Gǽstas hweorfað in bánfatu,- Ph. 519.
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Hé siþþan hwearf hámweard tó Babylonia
post Babyloniam rediit,
- Ors. 3, 9; S. 136, 3.
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Paulinus huerf eft tó Cantwarum (hwearf eft tó Cent
rediit Cantiam,
- Bd. 2, 20 ; Sch. 186, 24), Chr. 633 ; P. 24, 20.
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Þá hwearf sé ána in tó him
rediit ipse solus,
- Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 357, 21: 5, 19; Sch. 660, 22.
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His geféran hwurfan tó cyricean
sociis ad ecclesiam reuersis,
- 4, 3 ; Sch. 352, 14.
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Hwurfon wíf on willan
the women returned with delight,
- Gen. 2086.
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Gé nú eft hweorfað (hwurfað, v. l.) and biddað
reuertentes dicite,
- Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 357, 8.
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Þonne hé eft tó his éðle hweorfan (hwurfan, v. l.) wolde
cum patriam reuerteretur,
- 5, 19; Sch. 659, 23.
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Wæs Maria eft hweorfende tó hire húse,
- Bl. H. 139, 3.
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Mægen monna cynnes hweorfað on wídne lég,
- Cri. 958 : Gú. 784.
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Hwearf heo bí bence,
- B. 1188.
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Hæleða bearn sculon on þæt líg tó þé hweorfan,
- Gen. 754: Sat. 419. ¶ with reflex, dat. :--
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Gástas hweorfon, sóhtou swegles dreámas,
- An. 640.
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Gif seó wyrd swá hweorfan mót on yfelra manna gewill,
- Bt. 4; F. 8, 18.
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Búton se mon hweorfe tó góde,
- Bt. 31, 2 ; F. 112, 28.
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Lǽtaþ hine eft hweorfan tó minium lárum,
- 3, 1; F. 4, 24.
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Þonne þá þing hwám from hweorfende beóð, hé hí sceal mid þám mǽstan sáre his módes forlǽtan. . . And hý þé willaþ on murcnunga gebringan þonne hié þé fram hweorfaþ,
- Bt. 7, 2 ; F. 18, 16-20.
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Swáhit oft gesǽleð on þǽm sélran þingum þæt seó wyrd and sió hiów hié oft oncyrreð and on óþer hworfeð
ut aliquid plerumgue in secundis rebus fortana obstrepit
,- Nar. 7, 28.
- Hiǽ weorfaþ heora andwliotu. Mt. R. 6. 16.
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Se móna is ǽfre se ylca þeáh ðe his leóht gelómlíce hweorfe,
- Lch. iii. 242, 16.
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Hweorfende versicolor (versiculos, MS. but the passage is:
Versicolor
penna pavonis,- Ald. 142, 22), Wrt. Voc. ii. 89, 59. v. and-(B. 548),
Bosworth, Joseph. “hweorfan.” 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/53546.
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