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rignan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
rignan, rínan; p. rínde. [A strong preterite occurs in the Blickling Gloss, rán pluit. Cf. In Elyes tyme heuene was yclosed þat no reyne ne rone (roon, MS. W.: roen, MS. R.: ron, MS. B.: raynade, MS. C.), Piers P. 14, 62.]
Wright's OE grammar
§321;
to rain, to cause rain to fall,
with the agent expressed
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  • Ic ríne

    pluo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 28; Som. 30, 53.

  • Hé rýnde ofer synfullan grin,

      Ps. Spl. 10, 7.

  • Hit ágan rínan xl. daga and xl. nihta tósomne ðæm mǽstan réne, and seó eorþe rínde ealswá swíðe of hire eásprencgum angén ðam heofenlican flóde,

      Wulfst. 217, 1.

  • Hét hé ða wídan duru wolcen ontýnan heá of heofenum and hider rignan manna

    mandavit nubibus desuper, et januas coeli aperuit; et pluit illis manna manducare,

      Ps. Th. 77, 25.
with the agent not expressed
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  • Rínþ

    pluit,

      Ælfc. Gr. 22; Som. 24, 6.

  • Hit rínde feówertig daga,

      Gen. 7, 12 : Mt. Kmbl. 7, 27.

  • Hyt rínde fýr and swefl of heofone

    plait ignem et sulphur de coelo,

      Lk. Skt. 17, 29.

  • Swá gelíc swá ... sý fýr onǽled and ðín heall gewyrmed and hit ríne and sníwe and styrme úte,

      Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 17.

  • Drihten lét rínan hagol

    pluit Dominus grandinem,

      Ex. 9, 24.

  • Hé lǽt rínan (regneþ,and ða unrihtwísan,

      Mt. Kmbl. 5, 45.
to rain, to fall (of rain)
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  • Ríneþ blódig regn æt ǽfen

    a bloody rain shall fall at even,

      Blickl. Homl. 91, 34.

  • Mon geseah weallan blód of eorþan and rínan meolc of heofonum

    sanguine e terra, lac visum est manare de coelo,

      Ors. 4, 3; Swt. 162, 7.
Etymology
[Goth. rignjan : Icel. rigna, regna : O. H. Ger. reganón.]
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v.  regnan rínan regnian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “rignan.” 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/25805.

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