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.

Related words: horh, horu. ge-horwian

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