For-swelgan
Kamus Anglo-Saxon Old English Bosworth & Toller - for-swelgan
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- for-swelgan
- Add: (1) of living creatures, (a) lit. :-- Se fisc forswylcð þone angel forð mid þám ǽse, Hml. Th. i. 216, 12. Þe lǽs wulfas forswelgen (devorent) míne sceáp, Coll. M. 20, 15. Forswelgan lurcare, An. Ox. 3573. (b) fig. :-- Forswelð devorat (os impiorum iniquitatem), Kent. Gl. 719. (2) of inanimate objects. (a) material. cataractis vorantibus, An. Ox. 516. (b) non-material :-- Þæt hé þurh mycele gnornunge ne sý on lyre forswolgen ne habundantiori tristitia absorbeatur, R. Ben. 51, 6. (3) denoting destructive action. (a) of material agents :-- Blódig regn and fýren fundiaþ þás eorþan tó forswylgenne and tó forbærnenne, Bl. H. 93, 4. (b) of non-material agenes :-- Se deáð hý forswylcð on écnesse mors depascet eos, Ps. Th. 48, 13. Oððæt hí mid ealle deáð forswelge, Hml. S. 23, 326. [O. L. Ger. far-suelgan absorbere: O. H. Ger. fer-swelhan deglutire.] for-swelgan