For-hergian

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

for-hergian

Add: (1) of action by persons, to lay waste a country, carry captive people:--Æfter þǽm þe hé Egyptum forhergede, hé gefór siþþan on Judana lond and hiera fela forhergeade; siþþan on Ircaniam hé heora fela gesette post transactum in Aegypto bellum plurimos Judaeorum in transmigrationem egit, atque in Hyrcania habitare praecepit,Ors. 3, 5; S. 104, 23-26. (2) of the action of natural forces:--Se wíngeard wæs forslagen and forhergod mid onhreósendum hægle vinea grandine irruente vastata est, Gr. D. 57, 5. [O. H. Ger. fer-herión depraedare.] for-hergian