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morþ-weorc

(n.)
Grammar
morþ-weorc, es; n.

An act which causes death

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Deóflíce dǽda on morþweorcum and on manslihtan, L. Eth. v. 25; Th. i. 310, 15: vi. 28; Th. i. 322, 16

steóp-

(prefix)
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The form seems to have been used in the first instance in combination with words denoting children, to mark loss of parents, and then to have been combined with father, mother to express the relation of one who married the mother or father of an orphan

clǽnsung

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Add: , clǽsnung. physical. cleansing from dirt Clǽnsunga purgamenta (latrinarum ), An. Ox. 3918. cleansing from impurity, disease Clǽsnunga and swiling tó heáfdes hǽlo, Lch. ii. 2, 3.

ge-swingan

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Gl. 713: tortus, An. Ox. 46, 48: cesum, i. percussum, 10

ge-syndrian

(v.)
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I. 56, 9, and add On eallum stówum yld ná sí gesindrod (discernatur) on endebyrdnesse, 105, 6.

hand-stoc

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Handstocu mid godewebbum gestefnede manicę sericis clauatę, An. Ox. 5321: 2, 452 : 3, 373: 8, 375. Handstocan (-e, Hpt. Gl. 525, 6) manicas, 5240

Linked entry: stocc

heofon-cyning

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-cyninga, and add: of the first person of the Trinity Heofoncyninges lof singað Ceraphin, El. 748: An. 723. Hefoncyninges, Gen. 659. Hé hnigon mid heáfdum heofoncyninge, 237.

lácnian

(v.)
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Hálwende cleoþan lácniende medicinale cataplasma procurans, An. Ox. 1974. Mid lácniendum tólum medicinalibus instrumentis, 3047. Add

sǽdere

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Sǽdere sator, i. seminator, An. Ox. 2358. Gif hwá forstelð hwǽte and ꝥ forstolene sǽwð, hwæt áh ꝥ corn geweald ( how can the corn help) ꝥ hit wearp se sǽdere mid unclǽnum handum on ðá clǽnan moldan ?

yfel-lic

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Add: Poor, mean, common. of persons Án yfellic (wáclic, v. l.) man homuncio , Gr. D. 7, 24.

æ-bléc

(adj.)
Grammar
æ-bléc, ǽ-blǽce; adj.

Pallid, pale, livid

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Pallid, pale, livid Ǽblǽce decolor, pallidus, Germ. 392, 69: pallidus, An. Ox. 1868. On plúmfeðerum hé líð ac þéhweðere oft ǽblǽce, E. Stud. viii. 473, 19. Hé wearð geangsumod, and ǽblǽce on nebbe cwæþ, Hml. S. 37, 213.

ǽ-gift

(n.)
Grammar
ǽ-gift, e; f.

A giving up, return, repayment, restoration

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Bæd Ælfsige ǽgiftes his mannes a woman who had been stolen from him and hé hine ágef, 206, 30. Ǽgifta redditus, An. Ox. 5, 38: 8, 300

ǽnes

(adv.)
Grammar
ǽnes, adv.

Once.

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Gif bescoren man gange him an gestlíðnesse, gefe him man ǽnes, Ll. Th. i. 38, 13. Similar entries cf. ǽne, II Ðá se bróður ðás word gehýrde ǽnes, hé forhtode . . . and óðere nihte hé wæs gemanod mid ðám ylcan wordum, Gr. Ð. 338, 4

Linked entry: ǽne

ge-ambehtan

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ge-ambehtan, ge-embehtan, ge-embehtian.

to minister

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to minister Take here ge-embeht-an in Dict., and add Gif huá mé embehtes (ministrat) . . . gif huelc mé geembehtað (minisirabit), Jn. R. 12, 26. Geembihtatun mini-straverunt Mt. p. 7, 3. Him geembehte ðú illi servies Mt. L. 4, 10.

tór

(adj.)
Grammar
tór, adj.

Difficult, ⬩ hard

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Difficult, hard. v. tór-begete, -cirre & tat iss harrd & strang & tor and hefiȝ lif to ledenn, Orm. 6350. Erueð (tor, MS. T.) for te paien, A. R. 108, 9. An honful ȝerden beoð erueð for te breken (arn tor to breken, MS.

ár-wurþian

(v.)
Grammar
ár-wurþian, -wurþigean; p. ode; pp. od; v. a.

To give honour to ⬩ to honour ⬩ reverence ⬩ worship ⬩ honorare ⬩ honorificare ⬩ venerari

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Árwurþa ðínne fæder and ðíne módur honora patrem tuum et matrem, Deut. 5, 16

Linked entry: ár-wurþigean

inc

(pronoun.)
Grammar
inc, dat : inc, incit; ac : incer; gen.
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Yncer ǽgðer ofslyhþ óderne and hundas licciaþ eówre blód and fugelas fretaþ incer flǽsc and yncer wíf beóþ on ánum dæge wudewan, Shrn. 148, 1-4. Gehwæðer incer either of you two, Beo. Th. 1173; B. 584

Linked entries: git incit

þrafian

(v.)
Grammar
þrafian, p. ode.

to urge ⬩ press ⬩ to reprove ⬩ rebuke ⬩ correct

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Gif ic míne heorde tó swíðe þrafige on gancge and swence hig ealle hig sweltaþ ánes dæges si greges meos plus in ambulando fecero laborare, morientur cuncti una die, R. Ben. 120, 20. Mec mín freá þrafaþ on þýstrum, hætst on enge, Exon.

Linked entry: þræft

mæssian

(v.)
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Take here mæssian, placed wrongly in Dict. after mæsse-hrægel, and add Sé pápa mid his ágenum handum him his pallium on sette . . . and hé syððan mid þám pallium þǽr mæssode (mæssan sang, v.l.), swá se pápa him gewissode, Chr. 1022; P. 157, l.

nyten-ness

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Ongeán þám ingehýde and gearawitolnesse þe of Godes ágenre gife cymð, se deófol sǽwð and sendeð nytennesse, Wlfst. 53, 18. <b>I a.</b> want of knowledge on a particular point: — Nytennessa míne (ignorantias meas) ne gemun ðú, Ps.