BEÓT
a threatening ⬩ threat ⬩ command ⬩ menace ⬩ comminatio ⬩ minæ ⬩ peril ⬩ periculum ⬩ a boasting ⬩ boasting promise ⬩ promise ⬩ jactantia ⬩ promissio gloriosa ⬩ promissum
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a threatening, threat, command, menace; comminatio, minæ He ne wæs ondredende ða beótunge [beót, MSS. B.
Cásern
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He [Cásere] wearþ Rómánum swá leóf, and swá weorþ, ðæt hí hine nánuht ne héton búton fæder; and, him to weorþscype, hí héton his wíf, cásern [cásere + en, the f. termin.] eight hundred and sixty-seven years after the building of Rome, Hadrian succeeded
be-hófian
To have need of ⬩ to need ⬩ require ⬩ egere ⬩ indigere ⬩ Impersonally ⬩ it BEHOVETH ⬩ it concerns ⬩ it is needful or necessary ⬩ oportet ⬩ interest
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Ðeáh ða scearpþanclan witan ðisse Engliscan geþeódnesse ne behófien though the sharp-minded wise men may not have need of this English translation MS. Cot. Faust A. x. 150 b; Lchdm. iii. 440, 32. Behófaþ oportet Jn. Lind. War. 3, 7
Linked entries: a-behófian hófian be-héfe bi-hófian
ed-wít
A reproach, disgrace, blame, contumely, scorn ⬩ opprobrium, probrum, ignōmĭnia, cavillātio
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Ne þearf ðé on edwít Abraham settan Abraham need not put thee in reproach, i. e. reproach to thee, Cd. 130; Th. 165, 7; Gen. 2728. And me eác fela ðínra edwíta on gefeóllon et opprobria exprobrantium tĭbi cecĭdērunt super me, Ps. Th. 68, 9: 73, 21
fóre-beácen
A fore-token ⬩ prodigy ⬩ wonder ⬩ prodĭgium ⬩ portentum ⬩ ostentum
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Búton gé tácna and fórebeácnu geseón, ne gelýfe gé except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. Jn. Bos. 4, 48: Nar. 50, 21: -beácno. Blickl. Hom. 117, 30
for-scyldigian
To make guilty ⬩ to criminate ⬩ condemn ⬩ reum făcĕre ⬩ damnāre
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Ne slihþ se déma ðone forscyldgodan sceaðan, ac he hǽt his underþeóddan hine belifian the judge slays not the condemned robber, but he commands his subordinates to deprive him of life, ii. 36, 9
full-fremman
To do fully ⬩ fulfil ⬩ finish ⬩ perfect ⬩ practise ⬩ perfĭcĕre ⬩ perăgĕre ⬩ patrāre
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To do fully, fulfil, finish, perfect, practise; perfĭcĕre, perăgĕre, patrāre Syððan he ne mæg ðæne grundweall fullfremman posteaquam fundāmentum non potuĕrit perfĭcĕre, Lk. Bos. 14, 29.
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gærs-stapa
A GRASS-STEPPER ⬩ locust ⬩ lŏcusta
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Gærstapan hit fretaþ eall lŏcustæ devŏrābunt omnia, Deut. 28, 38 : Num. 13, 33 : Ex. 10, 12 : Jud. 6, 5 : Mt. Bos. 3, 4. Se byrnenda wind brohte gærstapan ventus ūrens levāvit lŏcustas, Ex. 10, 13, 19 : 10, 4
in-faran
To go into ⬩ enter
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Ne mæg hé infaran on godes ríce non potent introire in regnum dei, Jn. Skt. 3, 5. Ðæt hé ælmessan underféncge æt ðám infarendum that he might receive alms from those entering, Homl. Skt. 10, 27
leornung-cniht
scholar ⬩ disciple
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Nys se leorningcniht ofer his láreów non est discipulus super magistrum, Mt. Kmbl. 10, 24. Sí ðú his leorningcniht, wé synt Moyses leorningcnihtas, Jn. Skt. 9, 28. [The word occurs frequently in the Gospels, as it regularly translates discipulus.]
sundor-gifu
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For ðære sundorgife ðe him God sealde gumena ríce, Wé swylc ne gefrugnan ǽfre gelimpan, ðæt ðú in sundurgiefe swylce befénge, Exon. Th. 6, 6; Cri. 80. God monnum syleþ sundorgiefe God gives to each man a special gift, 293, 22; Crä. 5.
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swangor
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Heavy in movement of the body or mind, slow, slothful, sluggish, indolent, physically Nis hé (the Phenix) swár ne swongor swá sume fuglas ða ðe late þurh lyft lácaþ fiþrum ac hé is snel and swift non est tarda, ut volucres quae corpore magno incessus
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treów-leás
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Tríwleásra, 24, 21. without belief, infidel; infidelis Se ðe ne gímþ ðara ðe his beóþ hé wiðsæcþ Godes geleáfan and hé biþ treówleás qui suorum curam non habet, fidem negavit, et est infideli deíerior, Past. 18; Swt. 139, 3
trúð
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Com sum trúð tó ðæs bisceopes híréde, se ne gýmde nánes lenctenes fæstenes, ac eode him tó kicenan, Homl. Skt. i. 12, 59. Trúþas histriones, gligmon mimus, jocista, scurra, pantomimus, tumbere saltator. Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 41-44.
under-lecgan
to underlay ⬩ support ⬩ supponere ⬩ substernere
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Ðeáh hit mid náne anwald ne sié underléd cum nulla potestate fulcitur, Past. 17; Swt. 113, 25.
un-gedafenlíc
Unbecoming ⬩ unseemly ⬩ unmannerly
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N. P. L. 26; Th. ii. 294, 12
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widlian
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To defile, pollute, violate, profane Ne ðæt ingaas in múð widlas (coinquinat) ðone monno. Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 11. Measapreóstas sunnadæg widlas (violant), 12, 5. Ðás yflo wiðlað (widlas, Rush., communicant) ðone monno, Mk. Skt. Lind. 7, 23.
wrǽc
Vengeance
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Þatt was mikell wræche, þatt all follc for till helle, Orm. 19 ; don wreche (rimes with speche, leache, teche), Misc. 143, 56 ; tak wreche (rimes with preche), Alis. 2858: but there appears to be no instance in Old English of a nominative wrǽc which is
wyrm-cyn
the genus reptile ⬩ reptiles ⬩ serpents ⬩ a species of reptile ⬩ serpent
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Wyrmcyn, Nar. 13, 10. Nis nán wyrmcynn ne wildeóra cynn on yfelnysse gelíc yfelum wífe, Homl. Th. 1. 488, 10. On wéstennum wildeóra and wyrmcynna missenlícra, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 136, 25: Exon. Th. 371, 31; Seel. 84
be-nǽman
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Num. 24, II. Þeáh hé ús feores be-nǽme, Hml. Th. i. 576, 10. Hé wæs benǽmed manncynnes, 216, 17: S. 2, 290. Hí wǽron benǽmode (-ede, -de, v. ll. ) lífes, Hml. A. 69, 92. with dat.