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leornian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§5; §7; §49; §98; §170; §252; §276; §279;
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to acquire knowledge of a subject,
skill in an art &c. . as a result of study, enquiry, experience or teaching.
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  • Sélre mé wæs þæt þú mé gehnǽgdest, and ic syþþan þín sððfæst weorc leornade

    bonum mihi quod humiliasti me, ut discam justificationes tuas,

      Ps. Th. 118, 71.
  • Hú ne wást þú þæt þú leornodest on Ptolomeus bócum ?

    sicut Ptolomaeo probante didicisti,

      Bt. 18, 1 ; F. 62, 6.
  • Him þíes Wedera þeóden wræce leornode (cf. Milton's 'study of revenge'),

      B. 2336.
  • Wé ǽ leornedon,

      El. 397.
  • Hí leornedan láð weorc Gode

    didicerunt opera eorum,

      Ps. Th. 105, 26.
  • Hé wolde þæt þá cnihtas cræft eornedon,

      Dan. 83.
  • Leorna þás láre,

      Sch. 23: Fä. 61.
  • Leorniaþ wísdóm, and þonne gé hine geleornod hæbben, ne forhogiaþ hine þonne,

      Bt. 16, 1; F. 50, 25.
  • Þæt hí leornigen ðone cræft geþylde on þám langan geswince,

      39, 11 ; F. 228, 25.
  • Þisne cræft (bóccræft) leornian,

      Angl. viii. 308, 26.
  • Syndon þrý deáðas leornode on bócum,

      Verc. Först. 102, 15.
  • Siofon heofonas sindon in gewritum leornode,

      Nap. 50. 2.
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  • Ic wolde ꝥ þú leornodest hú þú mihtest becuman tó þám sóþum gesǽlþum

    superest, ut unde veram hanc beatitudinem petere possis agnoscas,

      Bt. 33, 3; F. 126, 29.
  • Leorna þé seolfa and geþancmeta þíne móde on hwilce healfe þú wille hwyrft dón,

      Gen. 1916.
  • Leornigeað

    (discite)

    hwæt is, 'Ic wylle mildheortnesse næs onsægdnesse,'
      Mt. 9, 13.
  • Ðá ongan hé smeágan and leornigan on him selfum hú hé ꝥ ríce þám cyninge áferran mihte,

      Bt. 1; F. 2, 18.
  • Þonne is leornod on bócum þæt on þysse worulde sýn fíf onlícnessa be helle gryre,

      Verc. Först. 106, 11: 109, 4.
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  • Sé þe nǽfre ne leornde specan qui numquam didicit loqui, Scint. 80, 17. I a. to learn a book,

    read with the intention of gaining knowledge

    :-- Hú ne sǽde ic þé ǽr þæt þu hyt scealt sécan on þǽre béc þe wit þá ymbsprǽcon ? Leorna þá bóc, þonne findst þú hyt þǽr,
      Solil. H. 65, 8.
  • Hé forbeád openlíce þæt mon náne fæste bóc ne leornode

    aperto praecepit edicto, ne quis Christianus docendorum liberalium studiorum professor esset,

      Ors. 6, 31; S. 286, 4.
intrans.
to acquire knowledge of a subject, to receive instruction, study
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  • Tó Lǽdensprǽce on þǽre ðe wé leorniað,

      Hml. S. 15, 110.
  • Forlét hé fæder and módor and on óðrum earde leornode,

      Hml. Th. ii. 334, 3.
  • Hé hiene benǽmde . . . þǽre scóle þe hé on leornode,

      Ors. 6, 31; S. 284, 24.
  • Húmeta cann þes stafas þonne hé ne leornode?,

      Jn. 7, 15.
  • Ðá þe firwetgeorne weorþaþ and onginnaþ leornian,

      Bt. 39, 3; F. 216, 5.
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  • Wé leornodon be þám wælhreówan Bisiridem . . . þæs leódhatan gewuna wæs ꝥ . . . , Bt. 16, 2; F. 52, 29. II a.

    to read :-- Þý lǽs ic lenge þone þanc hefige þára leornendra (legentium ),

      Guth. Gr. 102, 32.
to acquire knowledge of a fact,
hear of something
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  • Wé leornodon ꝥ hwílum gebyrede swíþe ungecyndelic yfel,

      Bt. 31, 1; F. 112, 12.
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