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ge-bridlian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-bridlian, -bridligan; p. ode; pp. od [ge-, bridlian to bridle]

To bridlerestrainfrēnāre

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To bridle, restrain; frēnāre He ða gesceafta nú gebridlod [MS. gebridlode] hæfþ he has now bridled the creatures, Bt. 21; Fox 74, 32. Ðæt hí hira mód gebridligen that they bridle their mind, Past. 33, 1; Swt. 215, 7; Hat. MS. 41 a, 8

ge-onbyrdan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-onbyrdan, p. de; pp. ed

To bear against, strive against, resist

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To bear against, strive against, resist Gif he on ðone geonbyrde ðe hine slóg if he strove against him who slew him, L. In. 76; Th. i. 150, 18: L. E. G. 6; Th. i. 170, 13: L. Eth. v. 31; Th. i. 312, 11

Linked entry: ge-ondbyrde

un-clǽnlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
un-clǽnlíce, adv.

Impurely

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Impurely Swá hwilc man swá Godes weorc clǽnlíce wirceþ, bið écelíce gehealden. Se ðe hit unclǽnlíce wyrceþ, bið áwyrged intó helle, Homl. Ass. 168, 121.

Linked entry: clǽn-líce

be-rǽsan

attack

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Add: to rush upon, attack him on berǽsde irruit super eos, Gen. 14, 15. to rush into (extremes) Berǽst on ungemetlice cuéminge inordinate ad mollitiem rapitur, Past. 143, 6.

fǽran

to terrify

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Add: to terrify Ðæt swá egesige ðá ofermódan ðæt ðá eáðmódan tó swíðe ne fǽre (ut timidis non augeatur metus), Past. 453, 19. [v. N. E. D. fear, vb.] to take by surprise, seize quickly (?) Uulfes férende lupi rapaces, Mt. L. 7, 15

for-dician

(v.)
Grammar
for-dician, for-dícian; p. ode

To barricade

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To barricade, block up a path wilnað ðæt ús ðone weg fordíkige (-dícige, v. l.), ðæt wé ne mægen ástígan iter ascensionis abscidit, Past. 361, 4.

rǽding-grád

(n.)
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Þonne þæder geclypod cume . . . ætforan þám bisceope and þám preósthírede, þonne ástrecce hine on eorðan ætforan þám rǽdinggráde (ante absidam). Cf. absidam grece sedem episcopalem; ante absida, ante sedem episcope, Ld. Gl.

Linked entry: grad

scirpan

(v.)
Grammar
scirpan, to clothe.
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Þá þá wæs eallinga eft scyrped vestitus, 343, 19. to equip for a journey hine hám wel scyrpan wolde, Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 659, 25

hyge-leást

(n.)
Grammar
hyge-leást, e; f.

Thoughtlessnessfoolishnessfollyheedlessness

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Englas wǽron befeallene on ða hátan hell þurh hygeleáste and þurh ofermétto angels had fallen into the hot hell through folly and through pride, Cd. 18; Th. 21, 29; Gen. 331.

wirsa

(adj.)
Grammar
wirsa, (wirra occurs once in the Chronicle); cpve.; wirrest, wirst; spve. adj.

Worseworst

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áwende hit him tó wyrsan þinge, 17, 13; Gen. 259. tǽhte Absalone óðerne rǽd wyrsan tó his willan, Homl. Skt. i. 19, 206. Wéne ic tó ðé wyrsan þinga, gif ðú Grendles dearst bídan, Beo. Th. 1055; B. 525.

níd

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wæs beótiende ꝥ wolde mid nýde (violenter) gán in þá cyrican, 234, 15. Hí hine mid nýde (néde, neádlunga, v. ll. ) upp áhófon and on his ágen hors ásetton invitum eum in caballum levaverunt, 15, 27.

cwelman

(v.)
Grammar
cwelman, cwylman, cwilman; part. -ende; p. de; pp. ed [cwealm, cwelm death, destruction, torment]

To torture, torment, destroy, killtrucidare, cruciare

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He wæs ðæt folc cwilmende he tortured the people, Ors. 1, 12 ; Bos. 36, 25. He eorþ-cyningas yrmde and cwelmde he oppressed and slew the kings of the earth, Bt. Met. Fox 9, 94; Met. 9, 47.

hú-meta

(adv.)
Grammar
hú-meta, adv.

Howquomodo

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Ðú sǽdest ðæt ðú ne mihte witan húmeta his weólde oððe hú his weólde you said that you could not see in what manner or by what means he governed it [the world ]; quibus gubernaculis mundus regatur, Bt. 35, 2; Fox 156, 25

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for-sceamian

(v.)
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Be his synnum forsceamigean de peccatis propriis erubescere, Scint. 40, 9. with clause forscamað ꝥ [] hit ánan men andette, Angl. xii. 513, 29. Eall þæt forsceamode þæt ǽnigum men gecýdde, Wlfst. 138, 1. with infin.

ge-tǽse

(n.)
Grammar
ge-tǽse, es; n.

An advantage;commodum

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advantage when ye were both in the body and thou hadst every good and he had every evil; he cannot now do more for thy advantage than thou wouldest then do for his, Shrn. 202, 31-4.

Linked entries: ge-tǽsu ge-tése

a-wierdan

(v.)

to corruptcorrumpere

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to corrupt; corrumpere He awiert ðæt mód corrumpit animum, Past. 53, 5

ge-hǽman

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Add hí genam niédenga and hire mid gehǽmde, Past. 415, 17

ge-húslian

(v.)
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hí gehúslode mid þæs Hǽlendes gerýnum, Hml. S. 3, 80. Add

ge-edwistian

(v.)
Grammar
ge-edwistian, p. ode; pp. od

To feedsupport

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To feed, support He geedwistode me educavit me, Ps. Lamb. 22, 2

Linked entry: edwistian

sundor-gecynd

(n.)
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- hafaþ sundorgecynd, Exon. Th. 357, 18; Pa. 30