For-scippan

Old English Dictionary Entry

For-scippan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 for-scippan

to transform, change for the worse. Take here for-sceoppan, -sceppan and add :-- Forsceóp ... þet líc ... wurdon tó hundum, An. Ox. 26, 61. Þurh ðá ofermódignesse mǽre englas on heofonum wurdon forsceapene tó atelicum deóflum, Wlfst. 145, 23. Scinnan forscepene spirits from angels changed to devils, Sat. 72. [N. E. D. forshape.] for-scippan

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛋᚳᛁᛈᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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