Old English Dictionary Entry

A-heardian

Related words: intrans. To harden, grow hard, become inured to anything, to last, hold out, endure

Definitions

1 definitions

1 a-heardian

p. ode; pp. od; durare, perdurare, indurescere :-- On swá mycelre geþræstnesse and forhæfednesse módes and líchoman aheardode and awunode he hardened and continued in so great contrition and restraint of mind and body; in tanta mentis et corporis contritione duravit, Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 28. AheardaÞ his gebod perdurat ejus imperium, R. Ben, 68. a-heardian

Similar Words

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Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᚻᛠᚱᛞᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Bd.: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
R.: Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)

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