Forþ-gang

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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forþ-gang

-geong). Add: (1) a going forth of a place :-- Forðgang egressio, Ps. L. 18, 7. (2) a going forth to a place :-- Hire forbeád þone forðgang (-gong, ) seó sceomu tó þǽre cyrichálgunge cum processionem imperaret verecundia, Gr. D. 72, 16. (3) a going on, course, progress :-- Forðganges nép, Exod. 469. In forðgange (-geonge, v. l.) þæs ǽrendgewrites in processu epistolae, Bd. 1, 13; Sch. 36, 25. (3 a) successful progress, success :-- Úre ágen cyre næfð nǽnne forðgang, búton hé beó gefyrðrod þurh þone Ælmihtigan, Hml. Th. i. 210, 12: ii. 340, 28. Gif hé on þám gástlican gefeohte forðgang habban sceall, Hml. S. 26, 856. ꝥte hé hæbbe ondfong on heofnum, seel and sibb on eorðo, forðgeong and giðyngo, Jn. p. 188, 11. (4) in a local sense, an exit, a passage (of part of the body) :-- Him eóde se innoð út æt his forðgange, Hml. S. 16, 207. Se deófol ne móste faran þurh þone múð út, ac fúllíce férde þurh his forðgang út, 31, 547. (4 a) a privy :-- Forðgang secessum, Hpt. 33, 239, 22. v. út-gang. forþ-gang

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