Ge-scirpan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-scirpan
to dress. Take here ge-scerpan in Dict., and add: I. to dress, clothe. (l) of people :-- Þá árás hé sylf and nine gescyrpte surrexit, vestimento se induit, Gr. D. 297, 12. Þeáh wé ús gescirpen mid þý reádestan godwebbe, Wlfst. 262, 21. In ðám godwebcynne bið S. Mihhael gescyrped on dómes dæg, Sal. K. p. 152, 22. (2) of things, to cover as with a garment :-- Þ UNCERTAIN treów biþ úton gescyrped (-scerped, ) mid þǽre rinde, Bt. 34, 10 ; F. 150, 7. II. to equip, provide with necessaries for a journey: -- Þá sende hé hine tó Róme and hine þider well gescyrpte (cunctis, quae necessitas poscebat itineris, largiter subministratis); and hine hét, þonne hé eft tó his éðle hweorfan wolde, ꝥ hé tó him cóme, ꝥ hé hine wel hám gescyrpte, Bd. 5, 19 ; Sch. 659, 20-25. Man beád ꝥ man sceolde twégen cempan gescyrpan tó þǽre fyrde, Hml. S. 30, 298. ge-scirpan

Related words: l.

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