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to throw, cast, cause rapid or violent movement of a body,
the agene personal
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  • Hé út áwearp þá sceomolas and þá setl,

      Bl. H. 71, 18.

  • Hé þone ealdan feónd on helle grund áwearp,

      87, 20.

  • Bútan man ðá mǽdene áwurpe of þám búre,

      Hml. S. 35, 69.

  • Daniel wæs áworpen þám leónum,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 10, 4.

  • Þæt hé wurde áworpen ðám here,

      Hml. Th. ii. 502, 14.
the agent not a person
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  • Se stranga wind hí on ꝥ land áwearp,

    • Chr. 1075
      • ;
    • P. 209, 37: 1009
      • ;
    • P. 138, 26 note.

  • Wearð hé ádúne áworpen of his horse,

      Gr. D. 14, 17.
to throw away :--
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  • Heó áwearp þá cartan,

      Hml. S. 3, 640.
to throw upfood :--
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  • Þonne se man mete þigð, þonne áwyrpð hé eft,

      Lch. ii. 204, 9.
fig.
of change in condition
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  • Heó on þis wræcwíte áworpen wæs,

      Bl. H. 5, 26.
to throw off, free one's self from
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  • Of him selfum áweorpan ðá ðióstro his módes,

    • Bt. 35, 6
      • ;
    • F. 166, 26.
to cast out, expel
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  • Áwearp

    expulit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 38.

  • Út áweorp ð(ú)

    ejice (derisorem),

      Kent. Gl. 824.

  • Þá setl þe deófol of áworpen wæs,

      Bl. H. 121, 35.

  • Hié hæfdun hiera cyning áworpenne,

    • Chr. 867
      • ;
    • P. 68, 19.
to reject, cast away or off,renounce,
with person as object
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  • Áwerpeð

    execratur,

      An. Ox. 56, 89.

  • Gif wíf áwyrpð hire ágenne wer,

      Hml. Th. ii. 324, 1.

  • Ic hine (Saul) áwearp,

      64, 5.
object not a person
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  • Manege þára þe mé ne lícodon ic áwearp,

      Ll. Th. i. 58, 19.

  • Hí áwurpon þá ealdan dysignesse

    abjecta prisca superstitione,

    • Bd. 4, 13
      • ;
    • Sch. 419, 13.

  • Ne áwearp ðú

    ne abjicias (disciplinam),

      Kent. Gl. 37.

  • Ǽlcne hǽðendóm áweorpan,

      Ll. Th. i. 166, 12.

  • Áworpenne

    reprobatum,

      An. Ox. 40, 6.
to cost down, trouble
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  • Mágos áweorpð

    propinquos abjicit

    (troubleth his own flesh,A. V.),
      Kent. Gl. 368.

  • Bið áworpen

    dejicitur (spiritus),

      518.

  • Áworpenra

    dejectior,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 3.
Etymology
[
Goth. us-wairpan to cast out, off
:
O. H. Ger. ar-werfen e-, de-, re-jicere.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-weorpan.” 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/39318.

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