Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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fore-sittan

(v.)
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to preside at or over. with dat. For first passage substitute Be þám sinoðe . . . æt Heortforda, þám wæs foresittende se arcebiscop (cui praesidebat archiepiscopus ), Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 371, 13. with acc. Þone sinoð foresæt sc̃e Leó, Chr. 1050; P. 170,

fore-standan

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to hold one's ground, prevail against Geatt helles ne forestondes wið ðá ilca portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam, Mt. L. 16, 18. For Cot. 149 substitute Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 63, and add:

fore-steóra

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For Cot. 149 substitute Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 56

fore-steppan

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Dele 'p. stepede . . . stept?'

fore-swerian

(v.)
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Dele

fore-swígan

(adv.)

Similar entry: fóre

fore-tácen

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Fortácen portentum vel prodigium vel ostentum, Wrt. Voc. i. 17, 19. Foretácna portentorum, ii. 66, 10. Fela þǽra foretácna þe Críst foresǽde, þæt cuman sceolde, Wlfst. 151, 32. Fortácna, 18, 18: 90, 17. Hiá seallas béceno and foretáceno (prodigia), Mt

Linked entry: for-tácen

fore-tal

Similar entry: tæl

fore-þencan

Similar entry: for-þencan

fore-tíge

Similar entry: tíg

fore-trymman

Similar entry: trymman

fore-warde

Grammar
fore-warde, an.
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Dele ', an'

fore-andfenge

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glosses praesumtus Foreondfengca praesumta, Lk. p. 2, 13

fore-beódan

(v.)

to announce ⬩ preach

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to announce, preach Forebodan (= -bodad? v. forebodian) bið praedicabitur, Mt. L. 24, 14

Linked entry: beódan

fore-beódan

(v.)

to prohibit

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to prohibit

fore-beran

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Þætte nǽnig bisceopa hine óþrum forbere ut nullus episcoporum se praeferat alteri, Bd. 4, 5; Sch. 378, 17. Add

fore-bisigian

(v.)

to pre-occupy

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to pre-occupy Sý forebisegod preoccupetur, An. Ox. 1236

fore-bodian

(v.)
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Forebodas praedicat, Mt. p. 14, 7. Forebodade, 9. Forebodadon (for-, R.) praedicabant, Mk. L. 6, 12. Forebodages praedicate, Mt. L. 10, 7. Add

Linked entry: for-bodian

fore-breóst

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Forebreóst praecordia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 49: Ælfc. Gr. Z. 85, 12. His (the Phenix) forebreóst is fægre gehíwod swylce marmorstán, E. S. viii. 478, 58. Forebreóstu precordia, Scint. 97, 3. Add

fore-byrdig

Linked entry: byrdig

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