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a-weorpan

  • verb [ strong ]
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a-weorpan, -wurpan, -wyrpan ; ðú -wyrpst, he -wyrpþ ; p. ic, he -wearp, ðú -wurpe, pl. -wurpon; impert. -weorp, -wurp, -wyrp ðú; pp. -worpen; v. a. [a from, weorpan to throw]
To throw or cast from or down, to cast away or off, cast out, to degrade, reject, divorce; abjicere, dejicere, projicere, ejicere, propellere, repellere, reprobare, repudiare
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  • Ðæt he ðec aweorpe of woruldríce

    that he shall cast thee from thy worldly kingdom,

    • Cd. 203; Th. 253, 1
      • ;
    • Dan. 589
      • .

  • Ðú awurpe hí, ðá hí wǽron upahafen

    dejecisti eos, dum allevarentur,

    • Ps. Spl. 72, 18 : 79, 9
      • :
    • Ps. Th. 72, 14
      • .

  • Is wærgðu [wærgða MS.] aworpen

    the curse is cast off,

    • Exon. 9 a ; Th. 7, 8
      • ;
    • Cri. 98
      • :
    • Bt. Met. Fox 23, 12
      • ;
    • Met. 23, 6
      • :
    • Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 44
      • :
    • Mt. Bos. 12, 28
      • .

  • Ðá woldon senatus hine aweorpan

    then would the senate degrade him,

    • Ors. 3, 10; Bos. 70, 36
      • :
    • Bt. 37, 4; Fox 192, 10
      • .

  • Ne aweorp ðú me

    ne projicias me,

    • Ps. Spl. 70, 10
      • .

  • Mannes sunu gebyreþ beón aworpen

    oportet filium hominis reprobari,

    • Mk. Bos. 8, 31
      • .

  • Aworpen wíf

    a divorced wife,

    • L. Æ1f. C. 7 ; Th. ii. 346, 6
      • .

  • Aworpen man biþ á unnyt

    homo apostata, vir inutilis,

    • Past. 47, 1; Hat. MS. 68 a, 23
      • .
  • Used also with the prepositions on into, as

    awurpan on

    to cast into

    ,
    • Mt. Foxe 13, 50
      • .

    Fram

    from,

    • Mt. Bos. 5, 29, 30
      • .

    Út

    out,

    • Mt. Bos. 13, 48
      • .

    Under

    below,

    • Bt. 37, 4; Fox 192, 10
      • .
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v.  a-werpan a-worpen a-wurpan a-wurpon a-wyrpan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “a-weorpan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/2687.

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