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hǽðen

  • noun [ masculine ]
  • adjective
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Grammar
hǽðen, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§288; §302; §431;
HEATHEN, pagan, gentile; and subst. a heathen
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  • Twá folc ðæt is Iudéisc and hǽðen

    two peoples, that is Jew and gentile,

      Homl. Th. i. 206, 32.
  • Ðes wæs hǽðen

    hic erat samaritanus,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 17, 16.
  • Gif ungefullod cild fǽrlíce biþ gebroht tó ðam mæssepreóste hé hit mót fullian sóna ðæt hit ne swelte hǽðen

    if an unbaptized child be brought to the mass-priest suddenly, he must baptize it at once, that it die not heathen,

      L. Ælfc. 26; Th. ii. 352, 17 : L. M. I. P. 42; Th. ii. 276, 15.
  • Hér sæt hǽðen here on Tenet

    in this year a heathen [Danish] army sat in Thanet,

      Chr. 865; Erl. 70, 31.
  • Óð ðone hǽðenan byrgels up to the heathen tomb, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ii. 250, 13. (The same phrase often occurs in the charters in the descriptions of boundaries.) Se hæfde wununge on hǽðenum byrgenum

    he had his dwelling among the tombs,

      Homl. Th. ii. 378, 26.
  • Hér hǽðne men ǽrest ofer winter sǽtun

    in this year heathen [Danish] men first remained through the winter,

      Chr. 855; Erl. 68, 23 : 851; Erl. 66, 26.
  • Bachsecg and Halfdene ða hǽðenan cyningas

    Bachsecg and Halfdene the heathen kings,

      871; Erl. 74, 17.
  • Ða ealdan Rómání on hǽðenum dagum ongunnon ðæs geáres ymbryne on ðysum dæge

    the old Romans, in heathen days, began the circuit of the year on this day,

      Homl.Th. i. 98, 20.
  • Used substantively :-- Ðæt hé forgeáfe gódne willan ðam seócan hǽðenan

    that he would grant good will to the sick heathen,

    ii.
      24, 33.
  • Sume ða hǽðenan

    some of the heathens,

    i.
      562, 28 : 560, 8.
  • Ða hǽðenan on Norþhymbrum hergodon

    the heathens harried in Northumbria,

      Chr. 794; Erl. 39, 19.
  • Ðyssera hǽðenra fǽrlícan deáþ

    sudden death from these heathens,

      Homl. Th. ii. 494, 31.
  • Hǽðinra

    gentium,

      Lk. Skt. Lind. 21, 25.
  • Hǽðenra þeównéd thraldom under the heathen, Cd. 189; Th. 235, 17; Dan. 307 : Hé hí on handgeweald hǽðenum sealde

    tradidit eos in manus gentium,

      Ps. Th. 105, 30.
  • Hie férdon ongeán ðǽm héðnum

    they marched against the heathens,

      Blickl. Homl. 203, 3.
Etymology
[Cf. Goth. haiþno; f. a heathen, gentile woman : O. Sax. héðin : O. Frs. héthen : Icel. heiðinn : O. H. Ger. heidan ethnicus, gentilis, paganus, samaritanus : Ger. heide a heathen.]
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v. Grmm. D. M. 1198.
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  • hǽðen, n.; adj.