Ge-scerpan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-scerpan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-scirpan, -scyrpan;

ge-scerpan
p. te To clothe, furnish, adorn, deck; vestire, ornare :-- Ðeáh Neron hine gescerpte wlitegum wǽdum though Nero clothed himself in beautiful garments, Bt. Met. Fox 15, 4; Met. 15, 2. Gescyrpte, Bt. 28; Fox 100, 26. Ele andwlitan gescyrpeþ oleum faciem exhilarat, Ps. Th. 103, 15. Ðá ðæt folc hine geseah swá gescyrpedne when the people saw him so furnished [i. e. with sword and spear, and riding on the king's horse], Bd. 2, 13; S. 517, 10: 5, 19; S. 638, 9, 10. Fugla cynn fiðerum gescyrped volucres pennatæ, Ps. Th. 148, 10. Ða ðe gescirped sind qui vestiuntur, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 11, 8. ge-scerpan
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