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Old English Dictionary Entry

á-blycgan

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1 á-blycgan

p. de; pp. -blyged, -blycged. I. to get affected by fear, get dismayed :-- Diriguit, i. obstipuit, horruit, induruit áblycde. Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 46. Ðá áblicgde Aman unblíþum andwlitan, and ne mihte ná ácuman ðæs cyninges graman, Hml. A. 100, 265. Hé wearð swíðe þearle áblycged vehementer territus, Gr. D. 133, 3. Ic eom áblicged consternor, Ælfc. Gr. 222, 9. Hé wearð áblicged . . . and forhtmód wafode . . . hé sæt áblicged, Ælfc. T. 17, 40-4. Hé wearð þurh ðás bodunge áblicged . . . hí cwǽdon him tó, 'Hwæs ondrǽtst ðú ðé?', Hml. Th. ii. 342, 16. Hí urnon tó áblicgede, and woldon ðæt fýr mid wætere ofgeótan, 166, 7. II. to get affected by wonder, get amazed, astonished :-- Mid áblicendum eárum attonitis auribus, R. Ben. I. 2, 10. Ðá wearð seó menigu swíðe áblicged, and mid wundrunge cwǽdon, Hml. Th. i. 314, 16 : Hml. A. 116, 447 : Hml. S. 3, 120. Wurdon hí þurh ðæt wundor áblicgede, 5, 89: Hml. Th. i. 386, 35. Ábliccedum attonitis, An. Ox. 3506. in Dict. a-blycgan
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᛒᛚᚣᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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