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on-búgan

  • verb [ strong ]
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on-búgan, p. -beáh. I.
to bend
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  • Ðonne ic onbúge

    when I (a bow) bend,

      Exon. Th. 405, 16; Rä. 24, 3.
to bend in reverence or
submission, to bow
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  • Heó tó hyre módor cneówum onbeah,

      Lchdm. iii. 428, 13.

  • Hís gebróðru onbugon tó him (

    proni adorantes

    ),
      Gen. 50, 18.

  • Ða ðe nolden tó his libbendum líchaman onbúgan, ða nú eádmódlíce on cneówum ábúgaþ tó his deádum bánum,

      Chr. 979; Erl. 129, 20: Ors. 6, 9; Swt. 264, 9.
to submit, yield
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  • Ðú eart rihtwís and nánum ne onbíhst,

      Homl. Th. ii. 298, 33.

  • Hé nǽnigum woruldrícum men þurh leáse ólecunga swíðor onbúgan nolde, ðonne hit riht wǽre,

      Blickl. Homl. 223, 28.

  • Beó ðú onbúgende ðínum wiðerwinnan,

      Mt. Kmbl. 5, 25.
to bend aside, deviate
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  • Ic onbúgan ne mót of ðæs gewealde ðe mé wegas tǽcneþ,

      Exon. Th. 383, 24; Rä. 4, 15.
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v. an-búgan, on-bígan.
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v.  an-búgan on-bígan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-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/24478.

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