Etan

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etan

Add: I. of living creatures. (1) to take food, take a meal :-- Sé itt and drincð mid ðǽm synfullum, Past. 327, 3. Eatað ðearfan edent pauperes, Ps. Srt. 21, 27. Ðá þá se Godes wer æt (ætt, ), se munuc stód him ætforan, Gr. D. 144, 1. Ðíne suna and ðíne dohtra ǽton and druncon mid heora yldestan bréðer, Hml. Th. ii. 450, 16. Hí ǽton ǽne on dæg, Bt. 15 ; F. 48, 8. Éton manducaverunt, Ps. Srt. 21, 30. Et (comede) and drinc and gewista, Lk. 12, 19. Ne gedyrstlǽcen hí þæt hý áhwǽr út of mynstre etan, þeáh hý hwá bidde, R. Ben. 79, 17. Et(a)n aepulari, An. Ox. 56, 81. (2) to eat food, &c. :-- Ic eotu flésc ferra manducabo carnes taurorum, Ps. Srt. 49, 13. On ǽrmergen hé yteð (eteð, iteð, v. ll.) hlóþe, Bd. 1, 34; Sch. 104, 13. Ðæt folc ætt þæs lambes flǽsc, Hml. Th. ii. 266, 15. Drinc ꝥ wæter and et þá wyrta, Lch. ii. 110, 9. Etað þisne hláf, Hml. Th. ii. 266, 33. Ꝥ man gódne mete ete, Bl. H. 57, 5. (2 a) to eat habitually, as a regular article of food :-- Næbbe gé líf on eów búton gé eton mín flǽsc . . . Sé ðe et mín flǽsc, hé wunað on mé . . . Sé ðe et ðisne hláf, hé leofaðon écnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 266, 25-32. Ælcne mete hé onscunedon þe men etaþ, and wilnodon ðára þe deór etaþ, Bt. 38, 1; F. 196, 4. Treówa wæstmas hí ǽton and wyrta, 15 ; F. 48, 9. Hí hláf ne ǽton . . . , ac ǽton manna líchaman, Bl. H. 229, 8. (2 b) to eat of something :-- Fela monna ǽton of ðám heofonlican mete on ðám wéstena, Hml. Th. ii. 274, 20. Sittað under ðám fíctreówe and etað of his wæstmum, Bl. H. 239, 7. (3) to provide food for a person (dat.) :-- Hí ǽton (eoton, v. l.) him of Hamtúnscíre and of Súð-Seaxum, Chr. 998; P. 131, 17. (4) to devour, consume, destroy :-- Þú etst (etest, v. l.) úre æceras nostri agros depastas, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 104, 19. Ðeóf eteð and spilleð fur mactat et perdat, Jn. R. L. 10, 10. Ic et exedi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 36. II. of things, (1) of the action of physical agents, (a) where it is gradual :-- Hine æt se cancor, Hml. S. 6, 284. Seó sealf wile ꝥ deáde flǽsc of etan, Lch. ii. 332, 25. (b) where it is rapid :-- Sió onlícnes sendde mycel wæter þurh hiora múþ and hié (hit?) æt manna líchaman, and hit ácwealde heora bearn . . . Þæt wæter weóx, and swíþe hit æt hyra líchaman, Bl. H. 245, 24-33. Þá eotendan edaces (flammas), Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 11: 31, 53. (2) of passion, &c. :-- Þínes húses anda mé et (comedit), Jn. 2, 17. Iteð, Ps. Srt. 68, 10. etan

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