For-spanan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-spanan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- for-spanan
- to lure to evil, allure. Add: (1) to lure :-- Forspenð hé hit mid ðǽre wólberendan óliccunge mentem securitatis pestiferae blanditiis seducit, Past. 415, 12. Forspa[nendre?] illecebroso (illecebrosis amplexibus, Angl. xi. 117, 33. Wearð þæt wíf forspanen þurh ðæs deófles láre, Hml. Th. i. 18, 8. [Warþ ꝥ wíf forspannen, O. E. Hml. i. 223, 28.] (2) to lure to evil action :-- Ðá ðe mid mislicum lustum hí tó ðám leahtrum forspeónon, Hml. Th. i. 410, 33: ii. 478, 31. Forspanen tó forligre, i. 306, 7. Ðe lés ic sió forspanen tó wiðsacenne ne inliciar ad negandum, Kent. Gl. 1079. (3) to lure to destruction :-- Hú fela hé forspanan mæge tó écan forwyrde, Wlfst. 85, 7. On ðone ilcan deáð hié wilniað eal moncynn tó forspananne and tó forlǽdanne, Past. 249, 20. [O. H. Ger. fer-spanan al-, in-licere.] v. for-spennan. for-spanan