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tó-sceacan

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-sceacan, -scacan; p. -sceóc, -scóc; pp. -sceacen, scacen.
to shake to pieces, shake violently, to disturb
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  • Tóscæcþ

    concutit, i. turbat, terreat,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 136, 47.

  • Stefn Drihtnes tósceacende wésten,

      Ps. Spl. 28, 7.
to shake off, drive away, disperse
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  • Ic tósceace

    discutio,

      Ǽlfc. Gr. 47; Zup. 277, 3.

  • Hit ðæt áttor tóscaceþ,

      Lchdm. i. 352, 14 note.
  • Hundes sceanca tósceaceþ ðone fefor, 362, 27.

  • Hé tósceóc ðone líg of ðam ofne, swá ðæt ðæt fýr ne mihte him derigan,

      Homl. Th. i. 570, 14.

  • Hé tóscóc ða dwollícan nytennysse,

      602, 35.

  • Módes slǽp tósceac mentis somnum discute, Hymn. Surt. 7, 23:

    dissice,

      19, 17.

  • Biþ ðæt gold tósceacen,

      Wulfst. 148, 23: 263, 9.
Etymology
[Gromes . . . þe totwic*-*cheþ and toschakeþ, O. and N. 1647. A wilde bor . . . man and houndes. . . wiþ his taskes he al toshok, Beves 742. With shaking shal be toshaken pees,
    Wick. Is. 24, 20.
Wynde may the plantes bigge toshake,
    Pall. 52, 240.
The word is used also intransitively All þe worlde shall toshake, Anglia iii. 546, 156.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-sceacan.” 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/30827.

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