Ge-brítan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-brítan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-brítan
- p. te; pp. -briacute;ted, -brítt To pound, bruise, crush. Take here ge-brytan (l. -brytan) in Dict. , and add :-- Gebrýtte fricabat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 39. (1) lit. :-- Ðeós wyrt hafað geoluwe blóstman, and gif þu hý betweónan þínum fingrum gebrýtest, þonne hafað heó swæc swylce myrre, Lch. i. 256, 9. Genim . . . gebærned sealt tó swýþe smalan dúste gebrýt, 216, 4. (2) fig-:-- God eall heora wǽpn gebrýt Dominus confringet arma. Ps. Th. 45, 8. þára synfulra mægen þú gebrýttest dentes peccatorum conteruisti, 3, 6. God ealle his fýnd gebrýtte, 46, arg. Gebrýtende gefeoht conterens bella, Ps. Rdr. p. 280, 3. Hý wǽron gebrýtte swá hrædlíce swá swá hradu ýst windes scip tóbryceth; in spiritu vehementi conterens naves, Ps. Th. 47, 6. Eal mín baacute;n synt gebrýtt, 6, 2. [Some of the passages here given might belong to ge-bryttan, q. briacute;tan.] ge-britan