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tó-sceácerian

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-sceácerian, p. ode
To waste, devastate, scatter
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  • Nú is eall mín heord tósceácerod

    nunc omnis grex meus vastatus est;

    they were scattered (Ezek.
      34, 5), L. Ecg. P. iii. 16; Th. ii. 202, 28.
  • Ðá wurdon hí ealle ðearle áfyrhte, and heora gesomnunga ealle wurdon sóna tósceácerode

    then (at the coming of the emperor Decius) they (the Christians) were all very frightened, and their congregations were at once scattered,

      Homl. Skt. i. 23, 23.
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v. sceácere.
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v.  sceácerian.
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