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to offer a sacrifice, sacrifice
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  • Þé þes déma hafað wítu gegearwad, gif þú onsecgan nelt, Jul. 251. (1 a) to sacrifice to a divinity, &c. :-- Ic onsæge ł ic offrige þé

    sacrificabo tibi,

      Ps. L. 53, 8.

  • Hí ðám deóflum onsægdon and heora Drihten forsáwon,

      Hml. S. 14, 13.

  • Þæt þú heofoncyninge wiðsóce, and onsægde synna fruman, Jul. 362. (l aα)

    to sacrifice

    with something,
      Bl. H. 41, 10 (in Dict.), cf.
. (1 aβ)
to sacrifice something
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  • Ongunnan sceuccum onsæcgean suna and dohter

    immolaverunt filios suos et filias suas daemoniis,

      Ps. Th. 105, 27.
with cognate object,
to offer a sacrifice
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  • Onsecgað onsegdnisse rehtwísnesse

    sacrificate sacrificium justitiae,

      Ps. Srt. 4, 6.
to offer a sacrifice to
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  • Ðé ic onsecgu onsegdnisse lofes,

      Ps. Srt. 115, 17.

  • Gúðlác Gode lác onsægde and mæssan sang

    immolato dominici corporis sacrificio et sanguinis Christi libamine,

      Guth. Gr. 163, 43.

  • Gode hæle tiber onsægde,

      Gen. 1502.

  • Bútan þú him lác onsecge,

      Jul. 199.
to offer something as a sacrifice
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  • Þú scealt sunu þínne onsecgan tó tibre,

      Gen. 2852.
to offer something in or by sacrifice. Cf. (1 b)
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  • Wes þú on ofeste þæt þú lác onsecge sigortifre,

      Jul. 255.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-secgan.” 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/56631.

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