For-wrecan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-wrecan
p. -wræc, pl. -wrǽcon; pp. -wrecen [wrecan to drive] To drive out, banish, expel; expellĕre, propellĕre, fŭgāre :-- Ðý-læs hit ýþa þrym forwrecan meahte lest the force of the waves might drive it out, Beo. Th. 3843; B. 1919. He hine feor forwræc he banished him far, 219; B. 109. Hý forwrǽcon wícinga cynn they expelled the race of the vikings, Scóp Th. 95; Wíd. 47. Eart ðú ána forwrecen on Hierusalem tu sōlus peregrīnus es in Jerusalem? Lk. Bos. 24, 18. for-wrecan
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