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orsorg-leás

(adj.)
Grammar
orsorg-leás, (?); adj.
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Without security, anxious Ǽghwylc crísten mann smeáge on him sylfum nearo se síðfæt bið ðǽre synfullan sáwle. For þan ne sceal nǽfre se crístena man beón orsorhleás (-lic ?), Verc. Först. 138. 16

weorold-lust

(n.)
Grammar
weorold-lust, es; m.
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For ðam ðe mæg ðurh ðæt tó anwealde cuman oððe tó sumum woruldluste vel potentiae caussa, vel delectationis, 24, 3; Fox 82, 34

yfel-wyrcende

(adj.)
Grammar
yfel-wyrcende, adj. (ptcpl. )
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hataþ ða yfelwyrcendan and ða unrihtwísan, Homl. Skt. i. 1, 48. of things, noxious, hurtful, mischievous Ðerh wyrto yfelwyrcendo per herbas malificas, Rtl. 103, 1

wítegian

(v.)
Grammar
wítegian, wítgian; p. ode

To prophesy

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wítgode suá suá hit geweorðan sceolde, Past. 1; Swt. 29, 11. Wítigan wítigodan, ðæt se wolde cuman, Blickl. Homl. 105, 9. Wítga (prophetiza) ús, huá is se ðe ðec ofslóg, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 26, 68.

Linked entry: wítgian

á-mirran

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mid his drýcræfte ðæs folces geleáfan ámyrde, 372, 3. Þá diófla ámirdon, ꝥ hié ne cúþan angitan þæt hit Godes wracu wæs, Ors. 4, 4; S. 162, 26. mid heora gedwolsprǽce eall folc ámyrdon, Hml. S. 23, 369.

for-búgan

(v.)
Grammar
for-búgan, port, -búgende; p. -beáh, pl. -bugon; impert. -búh, pl. -búgaþ; pp. -bogen; v. trans.

To bend frompass bydeclineavoidshuneschewrecēdĕreprætĕrīredeclīnāreevītāredevītāre

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To bend from, pass by, decline, avoid, shun, eschew; recēdĕre, prætĕrīre, declīnāre, evītāre, devītāre He mæg forbúgan ða þegnunga he can decline the ministrations, Past. 7, 2; Hat. MS. 12 a. 14: Wald. 25; Vald. 1, 15.

be-rípan

(v.)
Grammar
be-rípan, p. te

To stripdespoilplunder

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To strip, despoil, plunder. with acc. of person (or thing) despoiled, alone berýpð þá wannspédigan, Hml. Th. i. 66, ii: 328, 20: ii. 102, 15. berýpte ðá unscæððigan, Hml. S. 19, 8: 3, 444.

Linked entry: be-rýpan

deád

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Add: physical. of an animal or a vegetable Ðá onfunde ꝥ deád beón sceolde when he found that he must die, Bt. 29, 2; F. 104, 20. Án cild arn under wǽnes hweowol and wearð sóna deád, Shrn. 32, 12.

ge-dreccan

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Hine deófol mid his lymum wylle gedreccan, Angl. viii. 324, 19. to vex, annoy, provoke þone æðelan wer oft gedrehton ( ad iracundiam provocabant), Hml.

ge-tǽcan

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</b> to assign a person to a position :-- His fæder hine strýnð be his ágenre freódehter, and bið his móder twám sibbum getǽht (he is assigned to two of his mother's relationships), þæt bið ǽgðer ge sunu ge bróðer, Wlfst. 193, 7. to shew the

ge-neádian

(v.)
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Ox. 2541. to compel, force to (tó) an action bebeád his cempum ꝥ ðá crístenan cynegas tó þǽre offrunga geneádodon mid wítum, Hml.

swíþlic

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Add mid swíðlicum prasse férde, Hml. S. 29, 208. He ofwearp þone swýþlican ent, 18, 18. gegaderode swýðlice fyrde, 25, 290.

a-rédnes

(n.)
Grammar
a-rédnes, -rǽdnis, -ness, e; f.

A degreeconditioncovenantconsultumconditio

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A degree, condition, covenant; consultum, conditio Ðá geþafedon ðære arédnesse ea conditione consenserunt, Bd. 1, 1; S. 474, 20. Ðæt wíf he onféng ðære arédnesse uxorem ea conditione acceperat, 1, 25; S. 486, 33

Linked entry: a-rǽdnis

embe-þencan

(v.)
Grammar
embe-þencan, part. -þencende; p. -þohte; pp. -þoht

To think about, to be anxious for, careful sollĭcĭtus esse

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To think about, to be anxious for, careful; sollĭcĭtus esse Ne beó ge embeþencende oððe hwæt ge sprecon, oððe andswarion nōlīte sollĭcĭti esse quālĭter aut quid respondeātis, aut quid dīcātis, Lk. Bos. 12, 11

Linked entry: ymb-þencan

lígnian

(v.)
Grammar
lígnian, p. ede

To deny

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hine [Christ] lýgnedon leáse on geþoncum, Exon. 24 a: Th. 69, 13; Cri. 1120

Linked entries: lýgnian un-lígne

un-hlidian

(v.)
Grammar
un-hlidian, p. ode

To uncoverto remove the lid or covering from something

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To uncover, to remove the lid or covering from something Féng se portgeréfa tóö ðære tége and unhlidode, Homl. Skt. i. 23, 765. Seó byrgen wæs open geworden and unhlidod, Wulfst. 214, 19

Linked entry: -hlidian

æt-slídan

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Add: To slip up, fall Ætslád se hálga wer on ðám grádum swá þæt forneán eal wearð tócwýsed, Hml. Th. ii. 512, 10. Þá ætslídendan (printed -slidan) beheald labentes respice , Hy. S. 7, 13

gristbitian

(v.)
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gristbitað ( fremet; stridebit, Ps. L.: grystbitað, Ps. Spl.) mid his tóþum ongeán hine, Ps. Th. 36, 12. Gristbites, Mk. R. 9, 18. gristbitoton ( stridenunt ) on mé tóþum heora, Ps. Rdr. 34, 16. Add

munuc-behát

(n.)
Grammar
munuc-behát, es; n.
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A monastic vow 'Án munuc cóm and gyrnde míre dehter, sylle ic him oððe ná?' 'Asecge mé hwæðer his Gode wiðsace and his fulluhte and his munucbeháte,' Hml. A. 197, 81: 198, 95

Linked entry: be-hát

strewung

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Add: bedding læg . . . mid fefore gewǽht . . . on stíþre hǽran licgende mid axum bestreówod. Þá bǽdon þá gebróðra ꝥ his bed móston mid wáccre streówunge (strewunge, v. l.) húru underlecgan, Hml. S. 31, 1353