Ge-horwian, -horgian, -horian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-horwian, -horgian, -horian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-horwian, -horgian, -horian
- p. ode. I. to defile. (1) with material filth, to spit upon :-- Ongunnun summe efne-gespitta l gehorogæ (conspuere) hine. Mk. L. 14, 65. Gehoræd bid (conspuetur), Lk. L. 18, 32. [Cf. Gē mid horu speówdon on his andwlitan, El. 297.] (2) with moral impurity :-- Gālnyss gehorwigende libido sordidans, Hy. S. 5, 5. Gif gē mid synnum gehorgode beód, Nap. 30. II. to disgrace, treat shamefully :-- Ðene hiá mid sceofmum (scomum, R.) miclum gehoruadon (Skeat prints gehornadon, but Cook in his Glossary to the Durham Book gives gehoruadon) illum contumeliis affecerunt, Mk. L. 12, 4.