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On-beódan

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1 on-beódan

p. -beád; pl. -budon; pp. -boden. I. to bid, order :-- Ðú onbude hǽlu qui mandas salutem, Ps. Surt. 43, 5: 118, 138. Hé onbeád ipse mandavit, 148, 5. Ðá onbeád Basilla and cwæþ, Shrn. 86, 17. Ðá onbeád heó him ðæt hé hire tó onsænde all ða gesiðwíf, 87, 20. Hé onbeád ðæt hé of Róme cóme, Bd. 1, 25; S. 486, 25. II. to announce, tell, proclaim, send word :-- Hé hit him hám bebeád (onbeád, MS. C.) he sent them home word of it, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 168, 13. Him Pilatus onbeád ymbe Cristes tácnunga Pilatus ad Tiberium repulit de Christi virtutibus, 6, 2; Swt. 254, 23. Word unreht onbudun (mandaverunt) wið mé, Ps. Surt. 40, 9. Eác beámas onbudon, hwá hý sceóp, Exon. Th. 72, 9. Agustinus hét him onbeódan ðæt hér wǽre mycel riip, Bd. 1, 29; S. 498, 4. [Goth. ana-biudan: O. Sax. an-beodan: cf. O. H. Ger. in-piotan.] on-beodan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᛒᛖᚩᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Common Abbreviations

Ger.
German
O. H. Ger.
Old High German
O. Sax.
Old Saxon

Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Exon.
Exeter Book
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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