For-þryccan

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

for-þryccan

Add: (1) to injure or destroy by pressure, (a) literal :-- Mid þý fylle ðæs wáges forþryccende (opprimens) hé geþrǽste ǽnne þára muneca, Gr. D. 125, 6. Ic wille mé segnian, ac ic ne mæg, for ðon ðe ic eom forseted and forðrycced (premor) mid þám scyllum þisses dracan, 325, 5. (b) to torture :-- Beóð þá earman sáwla áhangene ofer þá hátestan lígeas, and þǽr þonne beóð forþriccende (-ede?) and gebundene, Ll. Th. ii. 400, 22. (2) to close up an opening :-- Þá tóslitenan wunda heó forþrycceþ, Lch. i. 356, 15. Múð his forðrycca (-ðrycga, L., dyttan, W. S. opprimere), Lk. R. 11, 53. [O. H. Ger. fer-drucchen premere, opprimere.] for-þryccan