Ge-brosnian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-brosnian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-brosnian
- p. ode; pp. od To decay, become corrupt; of places, to become ruinous. Take here ge-brosnod in Dict., and odd: (1) in a physical sense :-- Ðú ne geðafast þæt mín líchama gebrosnige (nec dabis sanctum tuum videre corruptionem, Ps. 16, 10), Hml. Th. ii. 16, 27. Ðonne ðín flǽe; gebrosnod, Past. 249, 14: 251, 9. Míewíc syndon gebrosnode and gemolsnode, Bl. H. 113, 26. (2) in a moral sense :-- Þ énas þá on nánre flǽscbesmitennyse beóð gebrosnude ministros qui in nullo carnis contagio corrumpantur, Scint. 69, 11.