Ge-syrwan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-syrwan
p. -syrede; pp. -syrwed. I. to arm [armour] :-- Eode ða gesyrwed secg to ðam eorle then went an armed man to the earl, Byrht. Th. 136, 30; By. 159. [Or gesyrwed wily, searu a wile; cf. gelýfed having belief.] II. to plot, machinate [searu artifice] :-- Wom-dǽda ðe [MS. ðy] ic gesyrede the ill-deeds that I have devised cunningly, Exon. 72 b; Th. 270, 20; Jul. 468. ge-syrwan

Related words: searu

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