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yfel-sacian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Substitute: to blaspheme (In the passage Bl. H. 189, 24 for mé should probably be read má, the original Latin is: Ne tantas Deo inferret blasphemias. v. Archiv xci. 190)
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  • Gé gehýrað hú hé Gode yfelsacað,

      Nap. 88.

  • Hé gewunode ꝥ hé yfelsacode þæs ælmihtigan Godes mægnþrym

    majestatem Dei blasphemare consueverat

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      Gr. D. 289, 8: 290, 1.

  • Hé yfelsacode . . . þá forðbigférendan yfelsacedon on hine,

      Nap. 88.

  • Hé lange ǽr wæs yfelsaciende, and swá þeáh lifde gesund

    blasphemus vixerat

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      Gr. D. 289, 27.
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v. ge-yfelsacian.
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