For-secgan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-secgan
Add: to say ill of a person, accuse (falsely) :-- Sum wer his wíf forsǽde, swá ꝥ heó sceolde hí sceandlíce forlicgan ... Se cniht forsǽde hí bútá. ... 'Hwí woldest þú forsecgan unc unscyldige swá?', Hml. S. 12, 181-198. Biddað leáse gewitan ꝥ hí Naboð forsecgan ðus: 'Naboð wyrigde God,' 18, 191. ꝥ hig nellan nǽnne sacleásan man forsecgean, Ll. Th. i. 294, 5. Ne sceal nán acolitus forsecgan (accusare) nánne subdiácon, ne nán exorcista forsecgan nánne acolitum ... mid nánre wróhte (accusatione), ii. 166, 21. Heó begann hí tó wrǽgenne and wolde forsæcgan, Hml. S. 2, 184. for-secgan
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