Nídan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

nídan

Add: I. to exercise constraint or compulsion upon one :-- Hié in hátheortnisse néddun (conpulerent) mec, Ps. Srt. ii. 193, 38. Hé nó æt ne cume, ðeáh hiene mon niéde, Past. 59, 10. I a. to force in a particular direction, for a particular object :-- Ná ꝥ án gódu gehealt, ac heó áweg nýt (repellit) wyþerwerde, Scint. 13, 10. His ealdormen niéddon hí æfter (I. 6) gafole, and micel geflit hæfdon propter avaritiam Maximi ducis in arma surgentes, Ors. 6. 34; S. 290, 24. II. to force to something. (1) with tó and noun :--Hé nǽnigne nýdde tó Crístenum þeáwe nullum cogebat ad Christianismum, Bd. 1, 26; Sch. 59, 5. Hí hiene niéddon tó leornunga, þéh hé gewintred wǽre, Ors. 6, 31; S. 284, 21. (2) with dat. infin. :-- Hié hié selfe nídað (niédað, v. l. ) tó healdonne swígean, Past. 271, 16. Stinge him mon feþere on múð, néde hine tó spíwanne, Lch. ii. 286, 17. [3) with clause :-- Þone hié nǽddun ꝥ hé bére his róde hunc angariaverunt ut tolleret crucem ejus, Mt. R. 27, 32. [v. N. E. D. need to constrain.] v. for-nídan. nidan

Related words: æfter;