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to exercise constraint or compulsion upon one
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  • Hié in hátheortnisse néddun

    (conpulerent)

    mec,
      Ps. Srt. ii. 193, 38.

  • Hé nó æt ne cume, ðeáh hiene mon niéde, Past. 59, 10. I a. to force in a particular direction, for a particular object :-- Ná ꝥ án gódu gehealt, ac heó áweg nýt

    (repellit)

    wyþerwerde,
      Scint. 13, 10.
  • His ealdormen niéddon hí æfter (v. æfter;I.6) gafole, and micel geflit hæfdon propter avaritiam Maximi ducis in arma surgentes,
      Ors. 6. 34; S. 290, 24.
to force to something.
with tó
and noun
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  • Hé nǽnigne nýdde tó Crístenum þeáwe

    nullum cogebat ad Christianismum,

      Bd. 1, 26; Sch. 59, 5.

  • Hí hiene niéddon tó leornunga, þéh hé gewintred wǽre,

      Ors. 6, 31; S. 284, 21.
with dat. infin.
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  • Hié hié selfe nídað (niédað,

    v. l. )

    tó healdonne swígean,
      Past. 271, 16.

  • Stinge him mon feþere on múð, néde hine tó spíwanne, Lch. ii. 286, 17. [3) with clause :-- Þone hié nǽddun ꝥ hé bére his róde

    hunc angariaverunt ut tolleret crucem ejus,

      Mt. R. 27, 32.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. need to constrain.]
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v. for-nídan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “nídan.” 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/55896.

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