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tó-scǽnan

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-scǽnan, p. de
To break to pieces
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  • Bán ne tóscaenas (-scǽnas, Rush.) ł ni gebraecgaþ gé of him

    os non comminuetis ex eo.

      Jn. Skt. Lind. 19, 36.

  • Ða feoturo forbræc ł tóscǽnde (-sceǽnde, Lind.)

    compedes comminuisset,

      Mk. Skt. Rush. 5, 4.

  • Ne furðon án bán næfde hé mid óþrum ac tóscǽnede ofer eall lágon and tóworpene geond ða wídan eorban

    he had not even one bone along with another, but broken to pieces they lay in all directions and flung here and there throughout the wide world,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 496.
Etymology
[Hi þe totorveþ . . . and þine fule bon toscheneþ, O. and N. 1120. In Layamon the word is intransitive Þu scalt toscæne mid mire eaxe . . . Corineus smat in enne stane . . . þe stan al tosceande (þat þe ston al tobrac, 2nd MS.), 2309-15.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-scǽnan.” 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/30826.

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