Týdran

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - týdran

According to the Old English Dictionary:

týdrian;

týdran
p. ede To propagate :-- Ic tyddrige (teddrige, MS. D.) propago, Ælfc. Gr. 36; Zup. 216, 14. I. trans. (a) To bring forth, produce :-- Se godcunda foreþonc geedníwaþ and týdreþ (tídreþ, Cott. MS.) ǽlc túdor and hit eft gehýt nascentia occidentiaque omnnia per simileis foetuum seminumque renovat progressus, Bt. 39, 8; Fox 224, 10. (b) to propagate, nourish, foster :-- Ðin hand plantode and týdrede úre foregengan plantasti eos. Ps. Th. 43, 3. Hér seó gálnese týdrode (týtrode, MS.) hir[e] cyn on hire sylfre multitudinem vitiorum avaritia nigro lacte nutrit, Gl. Prud. 57 b. Ǽlces landes gecynd is, ðæt hit him gelíce wyrta týdrige (týdre, Cott. MS.); and hit swá déþ; friþaþ and fyrþraþ swíþe georne, Bt. 34, 10; Fox 148, 29. Wyrd seó swíðe ... heó wile late áðreótan, ðæt heó fǽhðo ne týdre it will be long before she is weary of fostering hate, Salm. Kmbl. 898; Sal. 448. Telgran tídrian surculos pastinare (plantare, nutrire), Hpt. Gl. 433, 48. Týdriende pastinantem, rigantem, 454, 13. Tytdriendum propaganda, Anglia xiii. 30, 75. Fácn wiþinnan tyddriende dolum intus alentes, Coll. Monast. Th. 32, 33. II. intrans. To be prolific, (a) absolute :-- Týmaþ and tiédraþ, Cd. Th. 91, 14; Gen. 1512. Feoh sceal on eorðan týdran and týman, Menol. Fox 557; Gn. C. 48. Melce and týdrende foetas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 36, 32. (b) with dat. (inst.) of that in which anything is prolific:-- Wæstmum týdreþ, Exon. Th. 493, 18; Rä. 81, 32. Wudubearwas tánum týdraþ, 191, 6; Az. 84. Wæstme týdraþ cederbeámas, Ps. Th. 103, 16. Tyddraþ, 64, 11. [Þenne men michel tuderið ... and here tuder swiðe wexeð, O.E. Homl. ii. 177, 16. Þeȝȝre time wass all gan to tiddrenn and to tæmenn, Orm. 18307. Of hem ben tudered manig on, Gen. and Ex. 630.]

Related words: á-, on-týdran, ge-tyddrian; týdred, un-týdrende, týdriend, túdor. tydran

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