Efesian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

efesian

Substitute: (1) absolute, to cut hair:--Ic efesige tondeo, Ælf. Gr. 2, 157, 9. Sceára tácen is þæt þú wecge þínne scytefinger and þone midemistan on þínre swíðran hande ymb þín heáfod swilce þú efysian wille, Tech. ii. 127, 25. (2) with acc. of person, to cut the hair of a person:--Ne efesiað eów, Deut. 14, 6. Ne gé eów ne efesion neque in rotundum attondebitis comam, Lenon tanget caput ejus novacula, Jud. 13, 5. Seó wolde efsian ǽlce geáre þone sanct, Hml. S. 32, 192. (2 a) with head as object:--Wæs wel gecweden ðæt se efsigenda (efsienda, v. l.) efsode his heáfod bene dicitur: 'Tondentes tondent capita sua,' Past. 141, 3. Ðá sácerdas ne scoldon nó hiera heáfdu scieran mid scierseaxum, . . . ac hié scoldon hié efsigean (efsian, v. l.) mid sceárum, 139, 14. (3) with acc. of hair:--Sé þe on þám dæge hine baðað oððe his fex efesað, Wlfst. 212, 27. [v. N. E. D. evese.] v. be-, ge-, mis-efesian. efesian

Mots connexes: 19, 27. Man ne mót hine efsian oððe besciran