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mearcian

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mearcian, to mark, <b>mearcian</b> to fix bounds. [These may be taken together; cf. mearc.]
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to trace out boundaries for, plan out
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  • Hé mearcode þá stówa þe gé eówre geteld on sleán sceoldon metatus est locum, in quo tentoria figere deberetis, Deut. 1, 33. I a. fig.

    to plan, design, draw up

    a table :-- Þǽra geára getæl hæfð seó tabule þe wé mearkian willað,
      Angl. viii. 327, 41.
to march to, border upon,
have as a boundary to one's land
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  • Ðis sindon ðá landgemǽro . . .andlang bróces tó ðǽre díc ðǽre se æðeling mearcode,

      C. D. v. 298, 3.
to make a mark on an object
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  • Man swá mearcað (signat) mid medmicelum treówe þeorfe hláfas, ꝥ hí beóð gesewene swylce hí beón on feówer feórðandǽlas tódǽlede, . . . 'For hwí ne mearcodon gé ( signastis ) þysne hláf swá swá hit þeáw is ?,' Gr. D. 87, 1-13. III a.

    to mark

    with a symbol :-- Mid þám háligan ele gé scylan þá hǽþenan cild mearcian on þám breóste . . . mid róde tácne,
      Ll. Th. ii. 390, 10.
to mark a symbol on something,
portray, design
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  • Týn híw habbað þá bóceras . . . mid þám hig tódǽlað and ámearkiað heora accentas; ꝥ forme híw . . . hérbæftan ic mearkye,

      Angl. viii. 333, 23.

  • Hí mearcodon mid ðæs lambes blóde on heora gedyrum Tau,

      Hml. Th. ii. 266, 7.

  • Hé sylf on þám gewrite róde tácen mearcige

    signum faciat,

      R. Ben. 101, 6.

  • Tácna on sǽlicum þá þá mearcode strandum

    signa in glarigeris cum sulcaret litoribus,

      An. Ox. 2492.
to make with the hand the sign of the cross on an object
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  • Hé mearcode him on heáfde hálig róde-tácen and on his gúðfanan,

      Hml. Th. ii. 304, 14.

  • Mearciað róde tácen on eówrum foreheáfdum, i. 466, 20. V a. to mark an object with the sign of the cross :-- Hé mearcode hine sylfne mid róde tácne

    he crossed himself,

      Hml. S. 31, 719.

  • Wé sceolon mearcian úre forewearde heáfod and úrne líchoman mid Crístes róde tácne,

      Hml. Th. ii. 266, 11.

  • Mearcian sé þe hine gesihð anxsumnese getácnað

    to see oneself cross oneself (?) betokens trouble;

    the Latin is: Tricare qui se uiderit, anxietatem significat,
      Lch. iii. 210, 31.
where an object is placed at a spot that the spot may be identified afterwards,
to mark a place with something
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  • Hé mearcode ðá stówe (v. mearc;
), Hml. Th. ii. 160, 35.
to indicate in writing, note
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  • Ðá sciplíðende ꝥ gehýrende behýdelíce hí mearcedon ðone dæg,

      Shrn. 86, 2.
to make perceptible by some sign or indication
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  • Édmódnise under hiora (paruulorum) noma mercað

    (significat)

    tó haldenne,
      Lk. p. 9, 15.
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v. á-mearcian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mearcian.” 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/55190.

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