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openian

  • verb [ weak ]
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§536; §643;
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  • Byrigen opengende (

    patens

    ),
      Ps. Rdr. 5, 11.
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to spread apart, expand
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  • Openiendum þé hand þíne,

      Ps. L. 103, 28.
to make an opening in
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  • Hí openodon þone hróf,

      Mk. 2, 4.
to disclose, declare, make known
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  • Þone cyning þǽm þe hé þæs heofonlican ríces wuldur mid his gewinne openede (-ade, v. l.) and cýðde

    regem cui gloriae caelestis suo labore notitiam prouenisse gaudebat,

      Bd. 1. 32; Sch. 100, 21.
  • Openede

    declaravit, i. manifestavt (flaminem a facinoribus immunem esse ),

      An. Ox. 2925.
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