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  • Hí mihton mid heora handum rǽcean and niman þæs hálgan dústes dǽl,

      Shrn. 81, 16.
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  • Rǽc

    appresenta,

      An. Ox. 56, 18.
to stretch out one's hand
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  • Ne ráhten gié hondo in mec

    non extendistis manus in me,

      Lk. L. R. 22, 53.

  • Honda hráhton on ðene Hǽlend

    manus injecerunt in Jesum,

      Mt. L. 26, 50.
to hold out a thing
and give to a person,
a material thing
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  • Cuidestú ðone stán ráeceð (rǽceð, R.) ł seles him ?

    numquid lapidem porrigit ei?,

      Mt. 7, 9.
  • Rǽces, 10.

  • Ðǽm ic láf ráhte ł ic rǽco uællo (hláf hráhte ł ic rǽce wyllo, R.)

    cui panem porrexero,

      Jn. L. 13, 26.

  • Copp full of æcced ráhton tó his múðe

    (obtulerunt ori eius),

      Jn. L. R. 19, 29.
a non-material thing,
to give, bestow
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  • Þine dómas rǽcað gehwám ágen gewyrhta,

      Hy. 7, 15.

  • Rǽc fultume

    tribue auxilium,

      Rtl. 41, 11: 23,9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “rǽcan.” 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/57046.

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