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wesan

(v.)
Grammar
wesan, p. wæs, pl. wǽron
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His þegnas wǽron flǽsclíces módes, Blickl. Homl. 17, 5. <b>III b.</b> with prepositional phrases, prep, and noun Ic wæs mid weorþmende on neorxna wange, and ic ðæt ne ongeat, Blickl. Homl. 89, 8. Ðá wæs cyning on hreón móde, Beo.

secgan

(v.)
Grammar
secgan, secgean, secggan, secggean, sæcgan ; p. sægde, sǽde; pp. sægd, sǽd. [Forms as from an infin. sagian—sagast, sagaþ ; p. sagode; imp. saga, are given here.]
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Hwæt gódes mágan wé secgan on ða flǽsclícan unþeáwas quid de corporis voluptatibus loquar ? Bt. 31, 1 ; Fox 110, 24. Geunsóðian ðæt him man on secgan wolde to disprove what a man would charge him with, L. Edg. ii. 4 ; Th. i. 266, 4.

willa

(n.)
Grammar
willa, an; m.

will, the faculty of willingwill, purpose, design, commandwill, determination, resolutionintention, purpose, desire to actwill, desire, wishpleasure, delightwill, dispositionwill, accord, consent, pleasureGer. meinetwillenwill, one's own way

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Ða flǽsclícan willan, ða cumaþ þurh deófles‚ sceónessa tó manna heortan. Blickl. Homl. 19, 6. pleasure, delight Willa uoluptas Wulck. Gl. 253, 44. Se willa ðæs líchoman voluptas carnis . Bd. l, 27; S. 493, 19, 21.

habban

Grammar
habban, A.
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Ǽr ǽlc man hæbbe áne ríde geriden, 232, 19. l a curious use of the negative participle occurring in the following :-- Ðá de ungefandod habbað flǽsclicra scylda peccata carnis ignorantes, Past. 407, 19: 409, 22.

on

(prep.)
Grammar
on, an ; prep. adv. A.

expressing local relations, rest upon and contact with an object, ondependence upon an objectextension over a surfacenearnessin or at a place, or with a personrest where one object is contained in another, or is surrounded by others, within, among; and metaphorically inmarking the seat of feeling, thought, etc., in, within, at on, at, in within, in the course of, in, during on, a-fromon, in, at by, with of, consisting of or inin respect to, in the matter of, inin, ofat (a distance), of (the weight of),with, inin accordance withofinmotion, actual or figurative, which is external to the object expressed by the word which on governs, upon, on, on to, tomarking motion from without to the inside, into, among continuously, together, anon, at once expressing temporal relations,on, in, atinto (one's power, etc. )against in accordance withmarking the object of thought, emotion, speech, trust, sightmarking pricein (the name of), by (in adjuration)

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Hwæt gódes mágan wé secgan on ða flǽsclícan unþeáwas, Bt. 31, 1; Fox 110, 24. Higeteónan spræc on fǽmnan, Cd. Th. 136, 22; Gen. 2262. Ne sceal nán mann secgan on hine sylfne ðæs ðe hé wyrcende næs, Homl.

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