Mǽrsian. a

According to the Old English Dictionary:

mǽrsian. A

trans. III. add :-- Hí mid ege and micelan geláfan mǽrsodon þǽre eádigan forðfóre dæg, Hml. S. 23b, 800. His gemynd sceal beón mǽrsad mid mæssesongum, Shrn. 84, 3. IV. add :-- Eástrun wé ná ne mǽrsiaþ pascha nan celebramus, An. Ox. 40, 30. Hé mérsode micele symbelnesse for þám sige, Hml. S. 30, 396. Dreám mǽrsodan concentum celebrabant (praefatae virgines), An. Ox 4661. V. add :-- Hé worhte fela wundra . . . se Hǽlend hine mérsode (mǽrsode, ) swá, Hml. S. 27, 205. Mǽrsi[an] extollamus, An. Ox. 56, 332. B. intrans. To become famous; clarescere :-- Manige hálige martyras . . . daga gehwylce mǽrsiað and scínaþ (clarescunt) for þám wundrum þe æt heora þám deádum bánum geweorðað. Gr. D. 292, 4. Manige wundra scínaþ and mǽrsiað (clarescunt) þe lange ǽr wǽron mannum bemiþene, 330, 21. mærsian

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