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be-scúfan

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be-scúfan, -sceófan.
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to thrust, cast into a place
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  • Seó gýtsung manega bescýfð (precipitat) on fýr,

    • Prud. 60
      • .

  • þeacute; se Ælmihtiga [on] heolstor besceáf,

    • An. 1193.

  • Hí hine on cwearterne bescufon,

    • Hml. i. 18, 440
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  • Hét ontendan fýr, and hí tómiddes besceófan,

    • 7, 219
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  • Hét hiera bescúfan in þá eá

    DC jubeo ex his . dc. influmen mitti,

    • Nar. 11, 9
      • :
    • 24, 13.

  • On dimhofe wæs bescofen

    in latibulum truditur,

    • An. Ox. 3769
      • .

  • Sý þú on besceofen

    detrudere,

    on besceofene

    detrusis,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 41-43
      • .

  • Besceofene

    fraecipitata,

    • Wülck. Gl. 254, 36
      • .
to force to something
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  • Gif hé hí neédunge tó his ðeówte gebígde, oððe gif hé hí tó yfelnysse bescufe,

    • Hml. Th. i. 112, 7
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  • Hwá dorste ðæs gewilnian, þæt se Ælmihtiga Cyning sceolde besceófan tó cwale his áucennedan. æðeling?,

    • ii. 6, 21.

  • Bescúfende

    trudentes (ad erroris nau*-*fragia),

    • An. Ox. 5477
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-scúfan.” 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/40114.

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