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losian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to be lost, perish,
of living creatures,
in a physical sense,
to die, be destroyed
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  • Mid hungre ic losigo

    fame pereo,

      Lk. L. 15, 17.

  • Se líchoma losað þurh ðá oferfille,

      Hml. A. 6, 153.

  • Lá, haesere, we losaiað

    praeceptor, perimus,

      Lk. L. 8, 24.

  • Sé ðe losade bitwih wígbed and ꝥ wághrǽle,

      Lk. L. R. 11, 51.
  • Þá óðre losodon. Hml. S. 4, 367.

  • Gif se hund losige

    (perierit),

      Ll. Th. i. 78, 5.
to lose strength, fail, faint
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  • Ne losiga hiá in woeg

    ne deficiant in via,

      Mt. L. 15, 32.
in reference to temporal prosperity,
to fail, be ruined
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  • Mið ðý gé losigað

    cum defeceritis,

      Lk. L. 16, 9.

  • Ús fremað ꝥ án man swelte for folce and náteshwón ne losige (losaige, L. , (loesige, R. )

    pereat.

      Jn. L. 11, 50)
    seó mǽgð tósomne, Hml. A. 66, 13.
to perish spiritually
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  • Gif se synfulla gecyrran nelle . . . hé swelt (losaþ,

    v. l.

    ),
      Hml. A. 139, 29.

  • Þǽr losað ꝥ cild láðlíce hǽðen,

      Hml. S. 17, 155.

  • God hí swá gebígde tó his sóðan geleáfan ꝥ heó ne losode,

      4, 359.

  • Ðá árleásan ǽfre for heora yfelnysse losodon . . . Ðá árleásan magon nǽfre ætwindan ðám écum wítum áhwǽr,

      16, 89.
of inanimate things,
to decay, be destroyed, come to nothing
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  • Hér of heáfde iúero ne losað

    (non peribit),

      Lk. L. 21, 18.

  • Mett sé ðe losað (

    perit

    ),
      Jn. L. 6, 27.

  • Ðá bytto losas,

      Mt. L. 9, 17.

  • Se wela and se anweald losiaþ swá swá sceadu oþþe sméc,

      Bt. 27, 3; F. 98. 31.

  • Hú ne forealldodon ðá gewritu and losodon ?,

      18, 3 ; F. 64, 38.
to be lost to a person
(dat. ).
where the subject is a material or immaterial possession lost by negligence or misadventure
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  • Him losað beforan Gode his ryhtwísnes

    coram Deo innocentia amittitur,

      Past. 265, 11.

  • Butergeþweor ǽlc and cýsgerunn losaþ eów,

      Coll. M. 28, 19.

  • Hé beorna reáf manige méteð, þǽr hit mannum losað

    invenit spolia multa.

      Ps. Th. 118, 162.

  • Eall heora ǽhta losodon,

      Hml. S. 30, 151.

  • Seó gesceádwísnes þurh nán ðing ne mæg þám men losian,

      Bt. 11, 2; F. 34, 18 : Met. 10, 37.
the subject life or limb
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  • Þonne him feorg losað,

      Seef. 94 : Rä. 13, 3.
the subject something undesirable, which is got rid of
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  • Gif hié geornlíce wilnigen ðæt him yfel ðing losie

    si malis veraciter carere desiderant,

      Past. 263, 15.
the subject the loss suffered
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  • Hé geðencan ne con hwæt him losað on ðǽre gǽlinge ne ipsa quidem, quae patitur damna consideret, Past. 39, 1. II a. to be lost to a place, taken from a place :-- Híg . . . þæt bið forwisnad, ǽr hit áfohten foldan losige

    foenum . . . quod priusquam evellatur arescit,

      Ps. Th. 128, 4,
to be lost, be out of one's own possession or custody.
of that which has strayed or been mislaid
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  • Gaað tó ðér ilca, ðió losade (losigað,

      R. ), oð
    ðæt gemoete ðá ilca, Lk. L. 15, 4. (l a) figurative :-- Ne eom ic ná ásend búton tó ðám sceápum, ðá ðe losedon, Hml. A. 69, 110.
of a living creature,
to escape, abscond
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  • Gif mon sweordes onlǽne óðres esne, and hé losie,

      Ll. Th. i. 120, 12.

  • Him swá geborgen sý heora unwilles ꝥ heora tó fela ne losien,

      274, 5. (2 a) to escape from a person or place,
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  • Him se óðer þonan losað,

      B. 2062.

  • Gif þin geneát stalie and losie þé,

      Ll. Th. i. 116, 10.

  • Gif þeóf losige þý dæge þám monnum þe hine gefóð,

      148, 6.

  • Þǽr ǽnig ne mæg losian caldan clommum,

      Cri. 1629: 1002: Rä. 3,
with prep.
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  • Swá swá spearuwa of huntan gríne losige

    sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium,

      Ps. Th. 123, 6.
to be lost, not to be obtained, the subject something one might have had
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  • Gíf him þæt ríce losað

    if they fail to get heaven,

      Gen. 434.

  • Ðý lǽs him losige ðæt heofenlice ondgit

    ne ipso veritatis intellectu vacuetur,

      Past. 85, 7.

  • Þæt him hálig gǽst losige þurh leahtras on þás lǽnan tíd,

      Cri. 1559.
to be wasted, not to be used to advantage
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  • Somnigas ðá screádunga ðætte ne loesige (losia,

      L. ), Jn. R. 6, 12.
  • Gif fǽrunga cymð se ýtemesta dæg, þonne bið losod seó eldi[n]g, Archiv cxxii. 257, 17. B. trans, (in the Lindisfarne Gospels for the most part).
to destroy.
in respect to temporal matters
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  • Ðá wyflo yfle losas

    malos male perdet

    ,
      Mt. L. 21, 41.

  • Ðeóf ne cymeð búta ꝥte... spilleð ł losað (-as,

      L. ), Jn. R. 10, 10.

  • Ðe cynig. fordyde ł losade morðorslago ðá ilco,

      Mt. L. 22, 7.

  • Hine se diówl losade

    (dissipauit),

      Lk. L. 9, 42.

  • Cuóm ꝥ flód and losade ł spilde

    (perdidit)

    alle,
      17, 27.

  • Hine in fýr sende ꝥte hine losade ł fordyde,

      Mk. L. R. 9, 22.
  • Cwóme ðú losige ł tó losane úsig, l, 24.

  • Losiga,

      Lk. L. 6, 9.

  • Sóhtun hine tó losanne,

      Jn. R. 10, 39.
of spiritual destruction
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  • Hé sáuel his losað,

      Lk. L. R. 9, 24, 25.

  • Ðá sáuel losige ł fordóa in tintergo,

      Mt. L. 10, 28.
to lose, be deprived of
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  • Ne losade (losa,

      R. ) ic of ðǽm ǽniht, Jn. L. 18, 9. ꝥte
    e
to lose, cease to know the whereabouts of an object
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  • Gif losað énne of ðǽm, . . . mið ðý gemoetað hiá,

      Lk. L. 15, 4.

  • Gif wíf losað cásering énne,

      Lk. L. R. 15, 8.
to fail to obtain
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  • Ne loseð mearda his,

      Mt. L. 10, 42.

  • Losað,

      Mt. L. R. 9, 41.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “losian.” 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/54808.

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