A-web

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - a-web

According to the Old English Dictionary:

a-web
l. á-web, and add :-- Áwebb subtegmen, Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 22. Áweb subtimen, 282, 5. Add: I. to wake (trans.) from sleep, raise from the dead :-- Hwílon láreow mín áwecþ mé stíþlíce mid gyrde, Coll. M. 35, 31. Ic míne frýnd áweahte, Nar. 30, 32. God hine áweahte tó onliésanne ðá gehæftan on helle, Past. 443, 9. Iern and áwece hine, 193, 18. Áwece úrne deádan bróðor, Gr. D. 84, 14. II. to arouse a person from quiescence, to excite to feeling or action, stir up :-- Hé (John) þǽre módor innoþas ongeán þám Godes suna áweahte, Bl. H. 167, 6. Wearþ se drý áweht wiþ ðám apostolum, 173, 18. Hig wǽron ongeán hyne mid yrre áwehte, Nic. 14, 17. Sceolan wé beón áwehte and onbryrde tó godcundre láre, Bl. H. 33, 23. III. to arouse, excite passion, &c. :-- Ðás ilcan geornfulnesse Paulus áweahte (excitat), Past. 139, 1. Bið áweaht se anga ðǽre wrǽnnesse, 309, 15. Ealles líchoman ádla weorþað áweahte, Lch. ii. 218, 21. Beóð áwecte (-wehte, v. l.) andan, saca and tala, R. Ben. 124, 17. [Goth. us-wakjan: O. H. Ger. ar-wecken.] a-web

Related words: ó-web.á-weccan.

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