Tówenden
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tówenden
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- tówenden
- p. de To overthrow, upset, subvert, overturn :-- Hé tówende evertit, Hpt. Gl. 459, 52. Tówendum erutis, subversis, 433, 44. I. with reference to material objects, (a) where the object is not of great extent, to overthrow, demolish :-- Ðá tówende se hálga wer ðæt deófolgild grundlunge, Homl. Th. ii. 164, 16. Ðá tówende se biscop ð æt weofod, 508, 5. Hæfde se deófol tówend ðone weall the devil had thrown down the wall, 166, 19. Heora deófolgild wearð tówend, Homl.Skt. i. 22, 158. (b) where the object is of great extent, to overthrow, destroy :-- God ealne ðone eard tówende Dominus subvertit omnem regionem, Gen. 19, 25. Ðá tówænde se cyning heora winsuman burh, Homl. Ass. 102, 8. Hí tówendou ðæt tempel, 68, 83. Hig heora burga towenden