For-scippan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-scippan
to transform, change for the worse. Take here for-sceoppan, -sceppan and add :-- Forsceóp ... þet líc ... wurdon tó hundum, An. Ox. 26, 61. Þurh ðá ofermódignesse mǽre englas on heofonum wurdon forsceapene tó atelicum deóflum, Wlfst. 145, 23. Scinnan forscepene spirits from angels changed to devils, Sat. 72. [N. E. D. forshape.] for-scippan
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