On-sécan

Old English Dictionary Entry

On-sécan

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 on-sécan

to require something (gen.) of a person (acc.):--Ne onsécþ non quaeret, Ps. Spl. T. 9 second, 4. Ðǽr .xxx. wæs and feówere eác feores onsóhte þurh wǽges wylm then was life required of thirty-four by the rage of the wave (cf. under á-sécan, Ps. 118, 95), Exon. Th. 283, 13; Jul. 679. on-secan

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᛋᛖᚳᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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