Browse by Letter
Choose language
Old English Dictionary Entry

Ofer-hogian

Back to Letter O
Definitions

Definitions

1 definitions

1 ofer-hogian

to despise, contemn, scorn, disdain:--Moyses symle ða nyrugde ðe God oferhogodan. Se ðe Godes bebod oferhogaþ, hé biþ on hǽðenra onlícnesse, Blickl. Homl. 49, 12-13. Sum fearhrýðer ðæs óðres ceápes geférscipe oferhogode, 199, 4. Hé ǽlce unsíuernysse oferhogode Chr. 1067; Erl. 204, 36. Ðá oferhogode hé ðæt hé áðer dyde, Ors. 6, 34; Swt. 290, 21: Beo. Th. 4679; B. 2345. Hié ealle worlde weán oforhogodan, Blickl. Homl. 119, 16, 20. Oferhoga hí, and ádríf hí fram ðé, Bt. 7, 2; Fox 18, 8. Warniaþ ðæt gé ne oferhogian ǽnne of ðysum lytlingum, Mt. Kmbl. 18, 10. Ða gýmeleásan and ða oferhogiendan hé sceal mid wordum þreágan, R. Ben. 13. 15. preceding and next words and ofer-hycgan. ofer-hogian
Similar Words

Similar Words

Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚠᛖᚱ-ᚻᚩᚷᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Beo.
Beowulf
Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.
Earle, J. (editor)
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
View All Sources