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smeágan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
smeágan, smeán; p. smeáde; ppr. smeágende, smeánde; pp. smeád.
Wright's OE grammar
§537;
in the following glosses
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  • Ic smeáge scrutor,

    meditor.

    • Ælfc. Gr. 25
      • ;
    • Zup. 145, 3
      • :
    • Wrt. Voc. i. 50, 3
      • .

  • Smeáþ

    investigabit,

    • Kent. Gl. 652.

  • Smeáde

    disputavit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 25, 61.

  • Smegan

    investigare

      Kent. Gl. 953.

  • Tó smyágenne

    tractanda,

      749.
used absolutely, or with prepositions (be, on, ymbe)
to consider, meditate, inquire, deliberate
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  • Ic smégu

    meditabor,

      Ps. Surt. ii. p. 185, 3.

  • Hé smeáþ on his móde ymb ðis eorþlíce líf.

    • Bt. 39, 7
      • ;
    • Fox 224, 4
      • .

  • Be ðam gé smeágeaþ

    de hoc quaeritis,

      Jn. Skt. 16, 19.

  • Ða senatores dæghwamlíce smeádon on ánum sindrian húse embe ealles folces þearfe,

    • Thw. p. 161, 33
      • ;
    • Nicod. 19
      • ;
    • Thw. 9, 10
      • :
    • Homl. Skt. i. 3, 44.

  • Ðá hig mid him smeádon

    dum secum quaererent,

      Lk. Skt. 24, 15.

  • Smeá (smeáge, Lind. : smeóge, Rush. ) and geseoh ðæt . . .

    scrutare et vide quia,

      Jn. Skt. 7, 52.

  • Ðeáh wé ofer úre mǽþ þencen and smeágean,

    • Past. 16
      • ;
    • Swt. 101, 11.

  • Ic mid eallum mínum ealdormonnum wæs smeágende be ðære hǽlo úrra sáwla,

    • L. In. prm.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 102, 7.

  • Smeágende ymbe heora sáwla árǽd,

    • L. Edm. S. prm.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 244, 5.

  • Ymb his ǽ hé byþ smeágende

    in lege ejus meditabitur

      Ps. Th. 1, 2.

  • On eallum ðínum weorcum ic wæs smeágende,

      76, 10.
to consider, ponder, examine, inquire into, discuss, search,
with acc.
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  • Ðenden ic Godes bebodu smeáge

    scrutabor mandata Dei,

      Ps. Th. 118, 115.

  • Ne sécþ hé nánwuht, ne ne smeáþ, for ðam ðe hé hit wát eall.

    • Bt. 42
      • ;
    • Fox 258, 1.

  • Hwí smeágaþ hí unnytt

    quare populi meditati sunt inania,

      Ps. Th. 2, 1.

  • Hwæt smeáde gé be wege

    quid in via tractabatis,

      Mk. Skt. 9, 33.

  • Drihten, smeá míne geþohtas,

      Ps. Th. 25, 2.

  • Smeágeaþ (smeás gié. Lind. : smeógas gé. Rush. ) hálige gewritu

    scrutamini scribturas,

      Jn. Skt. 5, 39.

  • Ðæt hé his ágene dǽda georne smeáge,

      Blickl. Homl. 109, 12.

  • Ðeáh wé fela smeán (smeágen,Cote. MS. ), wé habbaþ litellne gearowitan búton tweón.

    • Bt. 41, 5
      • ;
    • Fox 254, 9.

  • Ðæt ic smeáde sprǽce ðíne

    (meditarer)

      Ps. Spl. 118, 148.

  • Ðú woldest míne láre srneágean,

    • 22, 1
      • ;
    • Fox 76, 25
      • .

  • Ic dé sende ðæt spell tó rǽdanne and tó smeágeanne

    ad legendum ac probandum.

    • Bd. pref.
      • ;
    • S. 471, 10.

  • Com Mellitus tó Róme be ðám nýdþearflícum intingum Angelcyricean and hé ða wæs smeágende mid ðone pápan

    venit Mellitus Romam de necessariis ecclesiae Anglorum cum papa tractaturus,

    • 2, 4
      • ;
    • S. 505, 30
      • .

  • Godes mǽrþa smeágende,

      H. R. 105, 8.

  • Scmegende wes

    scrutata est,

      Ps. Surt. 118, 129.

  • Smégende (smeánde)

    • Ps. Spl.
      • ,
    • 118, 70
      • .

  • Biþ smeád

    meditabitur,

      36, 30.
with a clause introduced by ðæt, hú, hwilc, hwæt, etc.
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  • Smeádon men oft, and gyt gelóme smeágaþ, hú se hláf máge beón áwend.

    • Homl. Th. ii. 268, 7
      • :
    • L. Ed. 4
      • ;
    • Th. i. 162, 1.

  • Ic smeáde mid mínra witena geþeahte, hú ic mæhte cristendómes mǽst árǽran,

    • L. Edm. S. prm.
      • ;
    • Th. i. 246, 19.

  • Hé sóhte and smeáde (

    tractavit),

    hwæt tó dónne wǽre.

    • Bd. 2, 5
      • ;
    • S. 507, 29
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 826
      • ;
    • El. 413.

  • Maria smeáde and þohte, hwæt seó hálettung wǽre.

      Blickl. Homl. 7, 16.

  • Smeáge man geornlíce, hwæðer hit sóþ sí,

      Deut. 19, 18.

  • Hí águnnon smeágan, hwilc of him ðæt tó dónne wǽre,

      Lk. Skt. 22, 23.

  • Dauid ongan smeágan and þencan, hwilce ðæs gódan mannes dǽda wǽron,

      Blickl. Homl. 55, 12.

  • Ðonne mót man smeágan and geornlíce spyrian hwár ða mánfullan wununge habban,

    • L. Eth. ix. 40
      • ;
    • Th. i. 348, 26.

  • Mid wæccere móde is tó smeágeanne and tó geþencenne

    (pensandum est)

    ,

    ðæt Drihten bebeád, dæt hí heora hrægel clǽnsodon.

    • Bd. 1, 27
      • ;
    • S. 496, 3.

  • Ús is tó smeágenne, ðæt Drihten on ðære costunge nolde his ða myclan miht gecýþan

      Blickl. Homl. 33, 17.
to seek an opportunity
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  • Ðá smeáde he ðæt hé hine gesáwe

    querebat videre eum.

      Lk. Skt. 9, 9.

  • Hé smeáde geornlíce ðæt hé hyne wolde belǽwan

    quaerebat opportunitatem ut eum traderet,

      Mt. Kmbl. 26, 16.
to accept as the result of inquiry, to suppose
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  • Be ðisum þingum ne cunne wé smeágean nán óðer þing búton hít sig on Godes dóme gelang

    de his rebus nihil aliud conjicere possumus, nisi quod adjudicium Dei pertineat,

    • L. Ecg. P. i. 13
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 178, 16.
    v. á-, fore-, tó-, þurh-smeágan; smeáh and cpds. with smeá-; cf. smúgan.
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v.  smeán.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “smeágan.” 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/28085.

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