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búgan

  • verb
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búgan, to bow.
Wright's OE grammar
§131; §320; §496;
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to bow, bend the body
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  • Him búgað englas, Hml. S. 7, 50. I a.

    to sink, fall

    :-- Dauid ofwearp mid his liþeran þone ent ꝥ hé beáh tó eorðan,
      Hml. S. 18, 24.
to yield, give ground, give way
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  • Beág cedebat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 20, 70:

    cessit,

      21, 33.

  • Se streám beáh for his fótum ꝥ hé mihte drýge ofergangan

    uidit undam suis cessisse ac uiam dedisse uestigiis,

      Bd. 1, 7 ; Sch. 24, 9,

  • Sóna swá hí tógædere féngon, þá beáh seó Englisce fyrd

      , Chr. 1001; P. 133, 23.
to bend one's steps, turn, go
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  • Þæt folc beáh ðyderweard,

      Hml, Th. ii. 32, 26.

  • Nis ús betere þæt wé búgon ongeán tó Egipta lande (

    reverti in Aegyptum

    )?,
      Num. 14, 3.

  • Heó nǽfre ne wolde on hús búgan,

      Lch, iii. 34, 29, Wæs him in bogen báncoða, Gú. 997.
  • III a. of retirement, withdrawal :---

  • Hé forlét woruldþing and beáh tó ðám mynstre þe is Magilros geháten,

      Hml. Th. ii. 348, 29.

  • Gif hió mid bearnum búgan wille

    if she wish to go away taking the children with her,

      Ll. Th. i. 22, 6.
of adhesion, submission, or abandonment, defection, to turn to
or from
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  • Se ðe fram Gode bíchð tó deófle,

      Hml. Th. i. 110, 1.

  • Seó gelaðung þe of Iudéiscum folce tó Crístes geleáfan beáh,

      44, 11.

  • Ciningas and eorlas georne him tó bugon, Chr. 959; P. 114, 24.

    Declina a malo,

    ꝥ is búh fram yfele ... Nis ná genóh þæt þú fram yfele búge,
      Hml. Th. ii. 602, 8: Hml. S. 12, 147.

  • Hé wolde búgan tó þám cynge (hé wolde his man beón,

    v.l.

    ),
      Chr. 1050; P. 169, 17.

  • It is míne fulle unna ðat Ælfrich mót búgan tó ðó tuéyen abboten,

      Cht. Th. 416, 8.

  • Búgende

    declinantia (a religionis tramite ),

      An. Ox. 3429.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “búgan.” 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/41091.

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