Un-þinged

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-þinged

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-þinged
adj. Uninvited, sudden, unexpected :-- Ðý læs iów geméte se réða and se egeslíca dæg, se cymð ofer ealle eorðwaran unðinged, swǽ swǽ grin et superveniat in vos repentina dies illa. Tamquam laqueus superveniet in omnes, qui sedent super faciem omnis terrae, Past. 43; Swt. 316, 12. Hí ofer cume unþinged deáð, ástígon heó on belle lifigende veniat mors super eos, et descendant in infernum viventes, Ps. Th. 54, 14. Dol biþ se ðe him his Dryhten ne ondrǽdeþ; cymeþ him se deáð un-þinged, Exon. 312, 8; Seef. 106: 335, 18; Gn. Ex. 35.

Related words: un-geþinged. un-þinged

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