I. to regard with loathing, to abhor, detest, execrate:--Ic onscunige (-sceonige) abhominor, detestor, Ælfc. Gr. 25; Som. 26, 63. Drihten onscunaþ (abominatur) ealle ðás þing. Deut. 18, 12. Ealle Egiptisce onscuniaþ (detestantur) scéphyrdas, Gen. 46, 34. Onscuniaþ abhominentur, Wrt. Voc. ii. 3, 59. Ic hit swíðe onscunode multum delestans, Bd. 3, 17; S. 545, 3. Word mín onscunedon (execrabantur) wið mé, Ps. Surt. 55, 6. Ðá anscunedon hiene his ágene leóde, and monige from him cirdon, Ors. 3, 11; Swt. 152, 12. Ðonne hé biþ æfstig wið óðra manna yfelu anscunige eác his ágenu cum contra aliena vitia aemulatur ostenditur, guae sua sunt, exequatur. Past. 13, 2; Swt. 79, 12. Ðá wæs ic ðæt swíðe onscuniende, and mé láþ wæs, Bd. 5, 12; S. 630, 32. Onscunigende gefeoht exosus bella, Ælfc. Gr. 41; Som. 44, 12. Onscunede exosam, Wülck. Gl. 55, 18. II. to regard with disfavour, to refuse, reject, shun:--Ǽlc gesceaft onscunaþ ðæt ðæt hire wiðerweard biþ quae sunt adversa, depellit, Bt. 16, 3; Fox 56, 4. Se ðe ðis gewrit gehýreþ hé flýhþ ðæt yfel and onscunaþ devitando quod noxium est, Bd. pref.; S. 471, 16. Ðá onscunode hé ðæt and cwæþ qui renuens ait, Gen. 48, 19. Hé onscunede unrihthǽmed ille recusabat stuprum, 39, 10. Gé onscunedon (rejected) ðone Scippend, and gedwolan fylgdon, Elen. Kmbl. 739; El. 370. Onscuna ðú leásunga (cf. fleóh leasunga. Ex. 23, 7), L. Alf. 44; Th. i. 54, 14. Godes willan onscunian Dei voluntate resistere, Gen. 50, 19. Heora ealde þeáwas onscunian and forlǽtan priscis abdiiare moribus, Bd. 2, 2; S. 502, 35. Nis ná tó onsceonienne seó sóðe gecyrrednys non est rejicienda vera conversio, L. Ecg. P. i. 2; Th. ii. 172, 10. III. to regard with fear:--Ondrédeþ l onscynaþ formidet, Jn. Skt. Lind. 14, 27: metuit, Rtl. 125, 25. Onscyniaþ opriant(=aporiant), Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 16. Onscunode exorruit, 33, 14. Ðeáh hí men oððe hundas wið eodan, hí hí ná ne onscunedon . . . and nán heort ne onscunode nǽnne león though men or dogs went against them (wild beasts), they were not afraid of them . . . and the hart was not afraid of the lion, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 168, 2-9. Gif ðú heora untreówa onscunige si perfidam perhorrescis, 7, 2; Fox 18, 8. Onscunien (revereantur) feónd míne, Ps. Surt. 34, 4, 26. Se onscunienda þystel carduus orrens, Wrt. Voc. ii. 22, 43. Onscuniende aporians, 2, 23: 4, 74. Onscunigende, 78, 30. Anscungendi aporiens, 100, 41. IV. to irritate:--Ábealg vel onscunede exacerbavit, i. provocavit, adflixit, 144, 56. Onscynedun exacervaverunt, Ps. Surt. 106, 11. on-scunian