Spanan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - spanan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- spanan
- Add :-- Speón suasit, An. Ox. 43, 9. I a. add :-- Forgif mé þám men þe mín mód mé tó spenð, Hml. S. 3, 390. For hwon hé geþrýsstlǽhte ꝥ hé héte þone Godes wer swá swæncan and tó him spanan (gelangian, ) cur ad exhibendum Dei hominem mittere praesumisset, Gr. D. 39, 11. II. (a) add :-- Se sǽtere ðæt is se dióful, hé hine spænð on wóh insidiator prava suggerit, Past. 417, 23. Hí speónnon ( = ? speónon ; but see spannan; I e. ) heom eall ꝥ landfolc tó, Chr. 1052; P. 178, 36. (b) add :-- Monige from him cirdon and Seleucus spónan ꝥ hé Lisimachus beswice, Ors. 3, 11; S. 152, 13. spanan