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á-búgan

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Add: to bow, bend, turn,
of motion (lit. and fig. )
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  • Hé tó eorðan ábeáh,

      Hml. S. 14, 134.
  • Ðá ábeáh seó módor tó hire bearne,

      25, 174.
  • Hwæþer þé of móde ábeáh

    has it escaped your memory?,

      Gr. D. 40, 24. (1a) where motion indicates reverence :-- Hí on
    cneówum ábúgað tó his dǽdum bánum, Chr. 979; P. 123, 27 : Hy. 7, 10.
  • Hí worhton fela gedwimera on anlícnessum and ðǽrtó ábugan. Wlfst,

      11. 5.
  • Men sceolon ábúgan tó gehálgodre róde,

      Hml. Th. ii. 306, 21.
of action,
yielding, submission
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  • Ðám wé sceolon ábúgan, and hé ne ábýhð ná ús. Hml. A. 8, 211.
  • Nó ábeág

    non cessit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 61, 26.
  • Ábeáh Uhtred eorl tó him,

      Chr. 1013; P. 143, 14.
  • Ealle men him tó ábugon and him áðas swóron,

      1086; P. 222, 12: 221, 31.
  • Ðá nolde seó burhwaru ábúgan ac heóldan mid fullan wíge ongeán,

      1013; P. 143, 27: Hml. S. 25, 119.
  • Ðæt folc nolde Gode ábúgan

    Deo non cesserant.

      Ors. 1. 7; S. 38, 17: Hml. S. 25, 170: Hml. Th. ii. 304, 20: Wlfst. 197, 9.
  • Hé wiste ðæt se man ábúgan

    (yield to temptation)

    wolde,
      Angl. vii. 24, 224.
abandonment
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  • Ðá ðe ábúgað

    (declinant)

    from bebodum ðínum,
      Ps. L. 118, 21.
of shaping, to bend, curve; fig.
to be humble
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  • Heó wæs ábogen

    erat inclinata,

      Lk. 13, 11.
  • Ábogenre, eádmódre

    cernua, i. humilis,

      An. Ox. 1278.
  • Ábogene

    dimissa, . humilia.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 31.
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