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þreágan

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þreágan, I.
Wright's OE grammar
§270; §537;
add: (i) the object a person
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  • Ne ðreáð ús nán monn, ne furðum áne worde ne tǽlð

    ne verbi quidem ab aliquo invectione laceramiur,

      Past. 117, 21.

  • Ðonne ðá ealdermenn ðreágeað ðá scyldgan

    cum delinquentes subditos praepositi corrigtint,

    12.

  • Ðreáddon

    increpuerunt,

      Ps. L. 15, 7.

  • Ðá ðe him ondrǽdað ðæt hié men for hira scyldum ðreágen

    corripere culpas metuunt,

      Past. 91, 9: 195, 25.

  • Miehtig tó ðreánne (

    arguere

    ),
      91, 15.
the object a thing (fault, sin, &c. )
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  • Mon hiera scylda ne ðreáð, Past. 129, 12. la. to threaten, cf. þreágung; II :-- For ðæm ryhtan edleáne Dryhten ðreáde ðurh ðone wítgan

    quod videlicet ex ira justae retributionis per prophetam Dominus minatur,

      Past. 133, 5.

  • IV.

    to press, urge :-- Hé ongan his geféran swíðe þreágan (urgere )

    ꝥ hí scoldon on þá tíd út faran,
      Gr. D. 38, 12.

  • Gif hí synd þreáde mid frécnesse deáþes

    si mortis periculo urgetur,

      Bd. l, 27; Sch. 79, 14.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “þreágan.” 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/59539.

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