For-seóþan

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

for-seóþan

pp. -soden To boil away; fig. to consume by affliction. Cf. seóþan; II. 2 :-- Hí (the Innocents) sind gehátene martyra blóstman, for ðan ðe hí wǽron swá swá úpáspringende blóstman on middeweardan cyle ungeleáffulnysse swilce mid sumere éhtnysse forste forsodene, Hml. Th. i. 84, 15. [N. E. D. forseethe. O. H. Ger. fer-sotan discoctus: Ger. ver-sieden to boil away.] for-seoþan