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a-scúfan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
a-scúfan, -sceófan; p. -sceáf. pl. -scufon; pp. -scofen, -sceofen [a from, scúfan to shove]
Wright's OE grammar
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To drive away, expel, banish, repel, shove away; expellere, pellere, abigere, extrudere, emittere
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  • Forþ ascúfan

    to drive forward,

    • Exon. 129b; Th. 498, 1
    • ;
    • Rä. 87, 6
    • .
  • Me cearsorge of móde asceáf Þeóden usser

    our Lord has driven anxious sorrow from my mind,

    • Cd. 55; Th. 68, 11
    • ;
    • Gen. 1115
    • .
  • He wæs asceofen and adrifen of his biscop-setle

    pulsus est a sede sui episcopatus,

    • Bd. 4, 12; S. 581, 17
    • .
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v.  a-sceáf a-sceofen a-scofen.
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