fylgean
to follow ⬩ to pursue ⬩ to follow ⬩ proceed along ⬩ to follow ⬩ to follow ⬩ to follow ⬩ to follow ⬩ devote one's self to, diligently attend to. ⬩ to attend to ⬩ to accommodate one's self to the will of another, yield to a thing ⬩ obsequi ⬩ to try to gain ⬩ to follow, do what has already been done by another ⬩ to happen or come at a later time
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Gl. 462. of time. to follow, do what has already been done by another Hí ealle becumað tó ðám écan lífe, and þú sylf siððan him fyligst tó Godes ríce, Hml.
tó-brecan
To break, ⬩ break in pieces ⬩ to break in two, ⬩ to break to pieces, ⬩ break up, ⬩ to separate into parts by striking or pulling ⬩ to overthrow, ⬩ break down, ⬩ ruin, ⬩ destroy, ⬩ put into confusion, ⬩ rout, ⬩ to destroy, ⬩ crush ⬩ to take by assault ⬩ to break a promise, pledge, etc., ⬩ to infringe, ⬩ violate ⬩ to break, ⬩ interrupt
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Tóbrec ðínne hláf and syle ðone óðerne dǽl hungrium men break thy loaf in two and give one part to a hungry man. Homl. Th. i. 180, 4. Man sceolde tóbrecan his stef, Chr. 1047; Erl. 177, 7.
LÍF
LIFE
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Sylle líf wið lífe reddat animam pro anima, Ex. 21, 23. Ðeáh hé líf hæfde if he had been alive, L. C. S. 73; Th. i. 416, 1. Wé ús nyton witod líf æt ǽfen, Wulfst. 151, 17. Líf and land werian, 274, 17.
þeód-scipe
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Ðá cwæþ se cniht ( the seventh brother ): 'Ic sylle mínne líchoman for ússa fædera ðeódscipe, swá míne bróþor dydon,' Shrn. 111, 20.
hwæt-hwega
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Add: as substantive. alone Þeáh hit wéne ꝥ hit sylf hwæthwega (-hwuga, v. l.) sí si se esse aliquid existimat, Gr. D. 8, 22.
treów
a tree ⬩ a material ⬩ wood ⬩ trees ⬩ a wood ⬩ roof-tree ⬩ saddle-tree ⬩ a piece of wood ⬩ a beam ⬩ log ⬩ stake ⬩ staff ⬩ cudgel ⬩ gallows-tree ⬩ tree used of the cross
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Hé (the Phenix) sylf bicreþ in ðæt treów innan torhte frætwe; ðǽr se wilda fugel ofer heánne beám hús getimbreþ (cf. hé heánne beám on holtwuda wunaþ, 209, 15; Ph. 171), Exon.
be-swícan
To deceive, entice, seduce, delude, betray, offend, supplant, weaken, evade ⬩ decipere, illicere, seducere, illudere, prodere, scandalizare, supplantare, deficere, evadere
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We beswicon [MS. beswican] us sylfe we have deceived ourselves, Exon. 121 a; Th. 464, 31; Hö. 96. Hycgaþ hú ge hí beswícen think how ye may deceive them, Cd. 22; Th. 28, 9; Gen. 433.
ge-earnian
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Nis nán tweó ꝥ hé forgifnesse syllan nelle þám þe hié geearnian willaþ, 65, 9. with clause Ic þé lǽre þæt þú hospcwide ne fremme . . . þonne þú geearnest ꝥ þé bið éce líf seald, El. 526.
HÚSEL
The HOUSEL ⬩ the Eucharist
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Ðæm folce húsl syllan Eucharistiam populo dare, Bd. 2, 5; S. 507,13. Hé frægn hwæðer hí ǽnig húsel ðǽrinne hæfdon. Ðá andswaredon hí hwylc þearf is ðé húsles . . . Cwæþ hé Beraþ mé hwæðere húsel tó interrogavit, si Eucharistiam intus haberent.
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leás
loose ⬩ destitute ⬩ void of ⬩ without ⬩ vain ⬩ false ⬩ lying ⬩ deceitful ⬩ deceptive ⬩ faulty
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Leáse sybbe ne sceal mon syllan feigned friendship must not be formed, Glostr. Frag. 112, 14. Ðonne cumaþ leáse Cristas and leáse wítegan surgent enim pseudo-cristi et pseudo-prophetæ, Mt. Kmbl. 24, 24.
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gód
Good ⬩ good thing ⬩ good deed ⬩ benefit ⬩ goodness ⬩ welfare
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Se getreówa man sceal syllan his gód on ða tíd ðe hine sylfne lyste his brúcan each man must in this world deserve that the good that his friend does for him afterwards may conduce to eternal rewards.
strengðu
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Ne mæg man ǽfre for his strengðe ðysne wyrttrnman syllan þicgean on sundrum, 260, 18. Hé sceal upweard licgean, ðý læs hé ða strengþe ðyssæ lácnunge ongite, 300, 21
for-déman
to condemn ⬩ to condemn ⬩ sentence to punishment ⬩ to confiscate ⬩ sequestrate ⬩ decide ⬩ determine
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Heó nolde seccgan unsóð and hí sylfe fordéman, Hml. S. 12, 241. 'Ðú eart fordémed.' Ðá cwæð Apollonius: 'Hwá mihte mé fordéman, mínre ágenre þeóde ealdorman? ... For hwilcum intingum hæfð hé mé fordémed? ... Micclum ic eom fordémed, Ap. Th. 8, 1-7.
frófor
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Hé sægde mancynne tó frófre ꝥ hé sylfa ús gesécean wolde, Bl. H. 119, 29. Sé Hálga Gást wæs . . . þǽm apostolum tó frófre geháten, 131, 13: Gen. 955: 1108. Þá gódan God geseóð heóm tó frófran and tó gefeán and tó áre, Shrn. 202, 16.
ge-síne
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Nú is geséne þæt þú eart sylfa God, Sae. 441 : 230. Hit is on ús eallum swutol and geséne (-syne, v.l.) þæt wé ǽr þysan oftor brǽcan þonne wé béttan, Wlfst. 159, 5. Mið ðý uæs áuorden cuðlíce geséne ꝥte . . . quo facto cognoscitur quod . . .
hǽlan
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Utan we úre gyfe ðám syllan þe hyre onfón cann, þæt is úre Drihten Hǽlende Críst (úrum Drihtne Hǽlendum Críste, v. l.) nostra donaria offeramus ei, qui nouit accipere. Domino Deo nostro, Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 307, 20 : Rtl. 114, 15.
heán
Low, mean, abject, poor, humbled, humble ⬩ humilis, infamis
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Hí hí sylfe léton ǽgðer ge for heáne ge for unwrǽste ultima propemodum desperatione tabuerunt, Ors. 3, 1; Swt. 98, 22.
ge-met
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VII a. measure in Biblical phrases :-- Ne sylþ God þone gást be gemete (tó gemet ad mensuram, L. ), Jn. 3, 34. Gé gefyllaþ gemet (-mett, L. ) fædera eówra, Mt. R. 23, 32.
þegen
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Ðe læs se ðéma ðé sylle ðam þéne (ðegne, Lind.: dægne, Rush.), Mt. Kmbl. 5, 25. Ða weorcgeréfan and ða þénas ( praefecti operum et exactores ) cwǽdon tó ðam folce: 'Pharao být, ðæt eów mann ne sylle leng nán cef,' Ex. 5, 10.
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þeów
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A child of less than seven years might, in case of need, be sold by its father: Se fæder his sunu, gif him mycel neód byþ, hé hine mót on þeówet gesyllan óð ðæt hé biþ .vii. winter; ofer ðæt, bútan ðæs suns willan, hé hine ne mót syllan, L. Ecg.