For-brecan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

for-brecan

Add; (1) with a material object :-- Ðeós wyrt (saxifrage) þá stánas on blǽdran forbrycð, Lch. i. 212, 15 : Ps. Th. 28, 5. Hé ðá feoturo forbræc l tóscænde (tóbræc, W. S. ) compedes comminuisset, Mk. R. L. 5, 4. Ic wille ꝥ palmtwig gegrípan, . . . and forseáredum him bégen dǽlas forbrecan and forbærnan, Bl. H. 151, 16. Ic hét hié gebindan and him þá bán and sconcan forbrecan crurifragio punire jussi, Nar. 16, 27. Swylce mé wǽre se hrycg forbrocen, Ps. Th. 31, 4: Ll. Th. i. 16, 8: 18, 15. (l a) fig. to crush a person, oppress :-- Ne forbrec ðú non conteras (egenum), Kent. Gl. 843. (2) with a non-material object, (a) to break power, &c. , destroy :-- Hié Judéa blǽd forbrǽcon, Dan. 709. (b) in a moral sense, to break a promise, command, &c. :-- Wit Waldendes word forbrǽcon, Gen. 798. [N. E. D. forbreak. O.H.Ger. fer-brechan confringere; praeter-ire, -gredi.] for-brecan