Ge-scirpan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-scirpan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ge-scirpan
- to sharpen. Take here ge-scerpan in Dict., and add: I. to make more active, strengthen. (l) of sight (lit. or fig. ) :-- Þín ꝥ líchamlice eáge ne gesyhð áht líchamlices, búton hit gescyrpe (acueret) þá þing tó geseónne seó unlíchamlice wíse, Gr. D. 269, 21. Búton hí sýn gescyrpte þurh þá ungesewenlican, 270, 2. (2) the object a person :-- Ic þurh þá mynegunge and lufe gescyrped (getrymmed, ) on mínum móde, Gr. D. l, 18. II. in grammar, ge-scirpt acute :-- Acutus accentus, þæt ys gescyrpt accent, Angl. viii. 333, 25. (O. L. Ger. Ge-skerpian.) ge-scirpan