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for-búgan

  • verb [ strong ]
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for-búgan, port, -búgende; p. -beáh, pl. -bugon; impert. -búh, pl. -búgaþ; pp. -bogen; v. trans.
To bend from, pass by, decline, avoid, shun, eschew; recēdĕre, prætĕrīre, declīnāre, evītāre, devītāre
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  • He mæg forbúgan ða þegnunga

    he can decline the ministrations,

    • Past. 7, 2
      • ;
    • Hat. MS. 12 a. 14: Wald. 25
      • ;
    • Vald. 1, 15.

  • Hú man sélost mæg synna forbúgan

    how a man may best avoid sin,

    • Ælfc. T. 15, 2: Homl. Th. i. 82, 26: 206, 6: Num. 22, 26.

  • Se wer wæs forbúgende yfel

    ĕ rat vir recēdens a mălo,

    • Job Thw. 164, 3.

  • Næs ðæt ná se Godríc ðe ða gúþe forbeáh

    this was not the Godric who had fled from the war,

    • Byrht. Th. 141, 21; By. 325.

  • Ða he ðæt geseah, he hine forbeáh

    vīso illo, præterīvit;

    • Lk. Bos. 10, 31, 32: Num. 22, 23.

  • Forbúh

    devīta,

    • Scint. 88.

  • Forbúgaþ unrihtwýsnysse

    eschew unrighteousness.

    • Homl. Th. i. 28, 21: 180, 13.

  • Ǽghwylc cristen man unriht hǽmed georne forbúge

    let every christian man carefully eschew unlawful concubinage,

    • L. Eth. v. 10
      • ;
    • Th. i. 306, 26: vi. 11
      • ;
    • Th. i. 318, 11.

  • Forbogen beón

    evītāri,

    • App. Lit. Scint. Lye.
      • (Orm. forrbuȝhenn to avoid, refuse.)
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Bosworth, Joseph. “for-búgan.” 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/11231.

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