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sceótan

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sceótan, <b>I a.</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§110; §135; §137; §312; §493;
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  • Arewan ongeán sceát

    catapultas retorsit,

      An. Ox. 4241.
  • Gáras sceótende

    spicula torquentes,

    2099.
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  • Hé genam ꝥ hylfe and sceát in ðone seáð tulit manubrium, et misit in lacum, Gr. D. 114, 13. IV a. add :-- Seó culfre fleáh þǽr út, and þá bróðra hire lócodon on, oþ ꝥ heó sceát in þone heofon (penetravit caelum), Gr. D. 275, 18. IV c. add :-- Gif hit gelimpeþ ꝥ se man ꝥ wyrignesse word ne gecwið tó his þám néhstan for hete, ac hit sceóteð forð þurh his tungan gýmeleásnesse

    si homo non ex militia, sed ex linguae incuria, maledictionis verbum jaculatur in proximum,

      Gr. D. 208, 3.
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  • Se alda suínhaga út scióteð tó Afene,

      C. D. ii. 29, 11.
  • Andlang heges þe scýt of þám burnan, iii. 458, 10.
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  • Swutelað hit hér ðæt Boui mid his scette áwerede ðæt land and fore scét on ealre scíre gewitnysse,

      C. D. vi. 183, 10.
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v. æt-, on-, tó-sceótan, niþer-sceótende.
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