Ge-cnyssan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-cnyssan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-cnyssan
- Add; I. to batter, dash (of sea, tempest, &c.) (lit. or fig-) :-- Sé gecnyseð ðá lytlan his gui adlidet parvulos suos, Ps. Srt. 136, 9. Þæt cinene scip gecnysed rimosa barca (turbine) quassata, Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 21. Ic eom gecnyssed (-cnysed, ) mid þám stormum þǽre strangan hreóhnesse in þám scipe mines módes in naui mentis tempestatis ualidae procellae illidor, Gr. D. 5, 19. Ic eom nú swá ꝥ twig ꝥ bið ácorfen of þám treówe, and áworpen on micclum ýstum and éghwanon gecnissed, Hml. S. 30, 192. II. of mental distress :-- Ðú gecnysydyst mé allisisti me, Ps. Spl. C. 101, 11. Hé wæs gecnyssed fram sumum geþancum, Hml. S. 23 b, 48. Gecnysyde elisos, Ps. Spl. C. 145, 7. [O.H. Ger. ge-knussen allidere, collidere, quassare.] ge-cnyssan