A-wácian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

-wácigan ;

a-wácian

p. ode; pp. od ; or effeminate, to languish, decline, fail, fall away, relax, to be indolent; infirmari, deficere, recedere :-- Awácode mid langre ealdunge weakened with old age, Gr. Dial. 2, 15. Awáciaþ on ðære costnunge tíman in tempore tentationis recedunt, Lk. Bos. 8, 13. Ðæt ne awácodon wereda Drihtne that they might not fall away from the Lord of hosts, Cd. 183; Th. 229, 20; Dan. 220. Gif he ná ne awácaþ if he never relax, L. Pen. 12; Th. ii. 280, 29. v. ge-wácian, on-. a-wacian

Mots connexes: intrans. To grow weak