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Wright's OE grammar
§133; §320; §546;
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to go off, away
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  • Ágá, yrming, út of ðysum mæn,

      Gr. D. 223, 10.

  • Þá hé út ágán wæs

    cum ille abiisset

    ,
      Gen. 27, 5.

  • Þá hí út ágáne wǽron cum essent in agro, 4, 8:

    cum fuissent egressi

    ,
      Num. 12, 4: Mt. 9, 32.

  • Wǽron þá men uppe on londe of ágáne,

      Chr. 897 ; P. 90, 26.
of time,
to pass
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  • Ic nát hwænne míne dagas ágáne beóð

    ignorem diem mortis meae

    ,
      Gen. 27, 2.

  • Manige geár syndon ágán,

      Bl. H. 187, 3.

  • Wé ná ne rímdon þá ágánan dagas, Gr. D. 345. 32. II a.

    to run out

    (of a lease). v. un-ágán in Dict.
to pass off, lose strength
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  • Ágǽþ

    evanuerit

    (v.
      Mt. 5, 13), Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 62.

  • Ágǽtþ,

      73, 2.
to come off, come to pass, happen
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  • Hit ágǽd eallswá hé spricð

    evenerit quod locutus est

    .
      Deut. 13, 2.

  • Þín swefen ágǽð bútan frecednysse . . . ꝥ swefen ágǽð mid gefeán,

      Lch. iii. 154, 25-6.

  • Æfter langre tíde hit ágǽð,

      156, 3.

  • Þá sǽde hé hú hit gewurðan scolde, and hit sóna æfter þám ealswá áeóde,

      Wlfst. 17, 18: 44, 23 [ = K. de visione Isaiae in Dict. ). IV a. with dat. of
    f

  • Hé on swefne áne gesihðe be him sylfum geseah swá swá him syððan áeóde,

      432, 28.

  • Swá swá hit him sorhlíce ágióde,

      C. D. iv. 56, 27.
to come out, become known
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  • Hé létt ágán út hú fela hundred hýda wǽron innon þǽre scíre

    he made it come out how many hundred hides there were in the shire

    ,
      Chr. 1085; P. 216, 18.
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v.  á-gangan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-gán.” 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/38253.

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