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on-wendan

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  • Hié hié noldon onwendan from hiera woom wegum,

      Past. 267, 5.
  • Onwendum heora móde fram þǽre þýfþe,

      Gr. D. 202, 2. IV b. add:
to upset a judgement,
abrogate, annul a law
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  • Þá gesprǽcon hié him betwéonum þæt hié wolden anwendan ealle þá gesetnessa and ealle þá gebodu þe Domitianus hæfde ǽr gesett,

      Ors. 6, 10; S. 264, 19.
  • Hwonne bið éngu spǽc geendedu . . . gif mon ǽlcne dóm wile onwendan ðe Ælfréd cing gesette,

      C. D. ii. 134, 18.
to upset a person, a condition of things
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  • On ðǽm dóme ðæs ryhtwísan déman onwent sió geearnung ðone hád and ðá geðyncðo (

    but the Latin is:

    In examine recti judicis mutat merita ordinum qualitas actionum),
      Past. 411, 24.
  • Ðú earma, ðú ðe eart mid ðý storme and mid ðǽre ýste onwend and oferworpen

    paupercula tempestate convulsa,

      181, 11.
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