Ge-þryccan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-þryccan

Substitute: p. -þrycte, -þryhte; pp. -þrycced, -þryced, -þryct. I. to press :-- Ðá hand geðrycð (premit) sió incunde lufu, Past. 389, 13. II. to press down, oppress, depress :-- Ðæt gesuinc hira ágenra welera hié geðrycð labor labiorum ipsorum operiet, Past. 239, 15. Ðætte ðæt lof hié tó ðǽm getrymede ðætte sió monung hié eft ne geðrycte quatenus eorum mentem, ne admonitio subjuncta concuteret laus praemissa solidaret, Past. 268, 22. Sé ðe bið geðryced mid ðǽre hefignesse his synna qui peccati sui pondere premitur, 268, 9. Ðæt hié sién innan geðryccede (-ðrycte, ) mid eádmódnesse interius deprimantur, 119, 15. III. to repress, compress, restrain :-- Ðone fiónd úserne geðrycg hostem nostrum comprime, Rtl. 180, 18. Hié hié selfe niédað tó healdonne ungemetlice swiggean and for ðǽm bióð swíðe geðrycte illos violenta custodia indiscreti silentii angustat, Past. 270, 17. Ðá eáðmódan bióð oft geðrycte mid ðǽre synne ðæs eges, ðonne hié ne durron unðeáwas tǽlan humiles, ut perversa non increpent, sub specie humilitatis premit culpa formidinis, 302, 7. IV. to express :-- Wé geðryhton (printed -dryhton) l wé áuritton expressimus, Mt. p. 3, 2. ge-þryccan

Related words: l.