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tó-cwísan

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-cwísan, p. de
To shatter, break to pieces, crush, bruise
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  • Ic tócwýse

    quasso,

      Ælfc. Gr. 24; Zup. 137, 10.
  • Ic tócwýse quatio, tócwýsde quassi, tócwýsed

    quassum,

      28, 4 ; Zup. 169, 6.
  • Ofer ðæne ðe hé fylþ hé tócwýst

    (comminuet)

    ,
      Lk. Skt. 20, 18.
  • Tócwiésð,

      Ps. Lamb. 28, 6.
  • Hé tócwýseþ heáfdu

    conquassabit capita,

      109, 6.
  • Gimstánas tócwýsan. Homl. Th. i. 60, 24.
  • Ðá wolde hé án eald hús tócwýsan

    he wanted to demolish an old house,

    ii.
      510, 12.
  • Ætslád se hálga wer . . . swá ðæt hé forneán eal wearð tócwýsed,

      512, 12.
  • Sum cild beam under ánum yrnendum hweóle and wearð tó deáðe tócwýsed,

      26, 25 : 166, 20.
  • Tócwýsed hreód

    arundinem quassatam,

      Mt. Kmbl. 12, 20.
  • Ðás gymstánas synd tócwýsede for ýdelum gylpe,

      Homl. Th. i. 62, 6. ¶
    The word seems used with a passive force in the following passage :-- Feól se wáh uppan ðæs stuntan rǽdboran, þæt hé æll tócwýsde and sum óþer cniht samod, Homl. Skt. i. 8, 173.
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