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trucian

  • verb [ weak ]
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trucian, p. ode.
to fail in doing something
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  • Ne trucaþ heora nan ána ðurh unmihte ac ðurh gecynde ánre Godcundnysse hí wyrcaþ ealle ǽfre án weorc

    no one of them alone fails through want of power, but through the nature of one divinity they all work always the same work,

      Homl. Th. ii. 42, 27.

  • Ciieów truciaþ

    the knees fail,

      Lchdm. ii. 242, 14.
to fail a person (dat.),
be wanting in duty to a person
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  • Hé undergeat ðæt his gesworene men him trucedan, and agéfon hera castelas him tó hearme,

      Chr. 1090; Erl. 226, 32.
to fail, come to an end
Trucaþ periclitatur, ic trucige periclitor (the passage is: Propria manu perire non licet, absque eo ubi castitas periclitatur ; but the glosser seems to have taken the word to mean more than is endangered, and to have taken it as meaning is lost),
    Hpt. Gl. 468, 78-469, 1.
Etymology
[Him trucode ealle his mycele cræftes, Chr. 1131; Erl. 260, 2. Him trukeþ his iwit, Fragm. Phlps. 5, 38. Heo is afered leste þeo eorðe hire trukie, O. E. Homl. i. 53, 15. Heo trukieð treoðen to halden, Laym. 16861. þa iseh Hængest ꝥ his help trukede, 16416. Wærc þe nauere nulle trukien, 17171. zif bileaue him trukede, A. R. 230, 19. Ne schal him neauer tintreohe trukien incredulos supplicio dampnat eterno, Kath. 1796: 403. þis bold . . . neuer truke ne schal, Misc. 97, 122. Til domes dai ne sal it troken, Al middelerd ðerinne is loken, Gen. and Ex. 105.]
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v. ge-trucian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “trucian.” 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/31064.

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