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ágnian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to possess
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  • Ðá ðe ic áh ł ágnigo

    quae possidet

    ,
      Lk. L. 18, 12.

  • Alle ðá ðe ágnegæð ł áh (ǽngað, R.)

    omnia quae possidet,

      12, 44.

  • Ágnigeð (-að,

      R.), 15.

  • Ágnageð (-igað,

      R.), II, 21.

  • Ágneges

    possidete.

      Mt. L. 25, 34.

  • Ágnege (agan, R.) gold

    possidere aurum

    ,
      10, 9.
of legal possession, to declare one's self the owner of property, so rendering team (q. v. , also
tíman,
) unnecessary
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  • Swá hé hit ágnode swá hé hit týmde

    whether he declared himself to have been the owner or traced possession to another

    .
      Ll. Th. i. 160, 8.

  • Gif hwá ná furðor teám ne cenð ac ágnian wile if any one does not carry the teám

    further, but declares himself to have been the owner

    , i.
      290, 19.
to appropriate to one's self,
usurp, arrogate
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  • Gif hé ðá gód þe ús God tó gemánan sealde him synderlíce ágnað (ǽgnað, Hatt. MS.)

    qui commune Dei munus sibi privatum vindicant

    ,
      Past. 334, 13.

  • Ðá unwaran þe him ágniað (-at,

      Hatt. MS.)
    ðone craft ðæs láreówdómes þe hí ná ne geleornodon, 24, 13.

  • Tó hwon ágnodest þú þé ánum þæt ic inc bám sealde,

      Wlfst. 259, 15.

  • Ahni[ende] (áhniend. Hpt. 523, 4)

    usurpans

    ,
      An. Ox. 5127.
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v. ge-ágnian ; ágnung.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ágnian.” 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/38297.

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