Higian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

l. hígian,

higian

and add :-- Hé hígode oððe tilode nititur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 59, 69. Higien we contendamus, 24, 36. Hígiendre intento, 48, 63. (l) with preps., in strive after, to, towards, (a) aefter :-- Hú mæg ꝥ yfel beón ꝥte ǽlces monnes ingeþanc . . . æfter hígaþ and wilnaþ tó begitanne neque enim vile quiddam . . . quod adipisci omnium fere mortalium laborat intentio, Bt. 24, 4; F. 86, 13. Ðæt ierfe ðæt gé ǽrest æfter hiégiað (hígiað, Past. 331, 24. Nota þæs wísdómes þe þú habbae . . . and híga georne æfter máran, Solil. H. 47, 17. Is ǽlcum þearf ꝥ hé hígie eallan mægne æfter þǽre méde, Bt. 37, 2; F. 188, 16. (b) on :-- Ne higion hi on feohgafole usuris nequaquam incumbant, Chrd. 76, 32. (c) tó. (α) of movement :-- Hé higode tó þǽre stówe ad locum tetendit, Gr. D. 99, 20. (β) of effort, endeavour, & c. :-- Hé hiégað (hígað, v.l.) tó andweard-nesse his Scippendes ad auctoris speciem anhelat, Past. 86, 10. Hé hígode tó þǽre lufan þæs heofonlican éþles ad amorem coelestis patriae exarsit, Gr D. 11, 5. Ðæt ðá weras hígien (hígigen, v.1.) tó máran byrðene ut viros magna exerceant. Past. 178, 17. (d) wiþ (gen.) :-- Hé hígað wið ðæs ðæt hé wolde hú hé eallum monnum wunderlicost dúhte satagit ut mirabilis cunctis innotescat, Past. 463, 36. Wiþ þæs ic wát þú wilt higian. Bt. ll, 2 ; F. 34, 8. (2) with dat. infin. to strive to do, Past. 105, 14 (in Dict.). (3) with clause :-- Hié higiað ealle mægene ðæt hié ðæt gedwellen ðæt óðre menn ryhtlícé ongieten habbað student summopere ab aliis recte intellecta destruere, Past. 365, 23. Tó þám ꝥ þú hígie ꝥ þú mæge becuman tó þám gesǽlþum þe éce þurh-wuniaþ, Bt. 22, 2 ; F. 78, 18. v. ofer-, on-higian. higian

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