Úþ-genge

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - úþ-genge

According to the Old English Dictionary:

úþ-genge
adj. Fugitive, transitory, not to be retained, passing out of one's possession :-- Se éþel úðgenge wearð Adame and Euan, eardríca cyst beorht óðbróden that country could no more be held by Adam and Eve, the choicest realm was taken away from them, Exon. Th. 153, 12; Gú. 824. Ðǽr wæs Æschere feorh úðgenge there life fled from Aschere, Beo.Th. 4253; B. 2123. Ðæs éðel wǽre éce tó gelýfanne on heofonum, nalæs on eorþlícre frætwædnysse, on gewítendre and on úþgengre cujus sedes aeterna non in vili et caduco metallo, sed in coelis esset credenda, Bd. 3, 22; S. 552, 20. Ðæt hié ne ástigan on ofermédu, ne úþgendra (-gengra?) welena tó wel ne truwodon, Blickl. Homl. 185, 14. [Cf. Goth. unþa- in unþa-þliuhan to escape.] uþ-genge
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