Of-stician
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - of-stician
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- of-stician
- to wound or kill by a thrust, to stab, pierce, transfix :-- Ofsticoþ configet, Kent. Gl. 844. Ic ofstikode hyne jugulavi aprum, Coll. Monast. Th. 22, 17. Antonius hiene selfne ofsticade Antonius sese ferro transverberavit, Ors. 5, 13; Swt. 246, 30. Se kāsere ålýfde ðåm cnihtum ðæt hī hyne (St. Casianus) ofslógen mid heora writbredum, and hine ofsticodon mid hira writýrenum, Shrn. 117, 29. Ðá hēt hē ðone pápan (Alexander) ofstician, 79, 8. Ofstikian bår jugulare aprum, Coll. Monast. Th. 22, 13. Hē swealt ofsticod fram him sylfum. Chr. 2; Erl. 5, 19. [Ger. ab-stechen.]