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húdenian

  • verb [ weak ]
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  • Húdenige ǽrest hine selfne, óþ hé wacige and áhrisige siððan óðre tó geornfulnesse gódra weorca

    prius se per sublimia facta excutiant, et tunc ad bene vivendum alios sollicitos reddant,

    • Past. 64
    • ;
    • Swt. 461, 16.
Etymology
[
Sweet, in the note on this passage, suggests that the word may be from the same root as quatio,
adding that Prof. Skeat compares the Scotch houd to shake
. May not the word however be used from a misconception of the Latin word, by which excutere is considered as connected with cutis = hýd?]
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  • húdenian, v.