For-býgan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-býgan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-bígan, -bígean, -bégan;

for-býgan
p. de; pp. ed To bow down, bend down, abase, humble, destroy; deprimĕre, humiliāre, imminuĕre:-- He hellwarena heáp forbýgde he humbled the multitude of hell's inmates, Exon. 18b; Th. 46, 3; Cri. 731: Exon. 120a; Th. 461, 13; Hö. 35.

Related words: býgan. for-bygan

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