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bisenian

  • verb [ weak ]
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bisenian, p. ode
to set or give an example of something (acc. or clause) to a person (dat.)
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  • Gif hé wel lǽrð and yfele mid weorce bysenað,

    • R. Ben. 11, 19
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  • Hí bisnodon hiora æftergengum ꝥ hí nǽren mid wítum oferswíþde

    exemplum ceteris praetulerunt, invictam malis esse virtutem,

    • Bt. 39, 10
      • ;
    • F. 230, 2
      • .

  • Bysnige hé ealle eáðmódnesse eallum

    magis humilitatis exempla omnibus det,

    • R. Ben. 107, 6
      • .

  • Gif se láreów riht tǽce ..., gif hé yfel bysnige,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 48, 35
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  • Þæt hý bodian and bysnian Godes riht georne,

    • Wlfst. 179, 8
      • .

  • Ꝥ hig mihton þám folce wel wissian tó Godes geleáfan and wel bisnian tó gódum weorcum,

    • Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 2, 28
      • .
to take example
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  • Ðá láreówas ðæt wæter gedréfað mid hira unðeáwum, ðonne ðæt folc bisenað on hira unðeáwum, nals on hira láre

    cum subjecti non sectantur verba, sed exempla pravitatis imitantur,

    • Past. 31, 6
      • .

  • Oðre men bi ðám bieseniað (bis-, v. l.)

    ad subditos suos exempla transmittunt,

    • 191, 7
      • .

  • Hé gesyngað ðurh ðá ðe be him bisniað

    (per eos, qui se imitari fecerint, delinquant)

    ... ðýlǽs ðá untruman be him bisneden,

    • 451, 27-30
      • .
to take the model for, model, form after a pattern,
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v. bisen,
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  • Of þínum ríce wé bysniað eall ꝥ wé gódes dóð,

    • Shrn. 166, 23
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  • Bisnide ł sceóp mec esne him

    formans me servum sibi,

    • Rtl. 55, 32
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  • Ne bysna þé be nánum þǽra þe yfel dón,

    • Ps. Th. 36, 8
      • .
to express figuratively,
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v. bisen,
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  • Ðæt ilce Dryhten ús bisnade ðurh Moysen, ðá hé cuæð

    quod figurate Dominus per Moysen praecipit, dicens,

    • Past. 165, 24
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Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. bysen.
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v. bysnian in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bisenian.” 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/40424.

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