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§5; §18; §24; §48; §80; §93; §96; §119; §196; §200; §232; §240; §298; §305; §472; §476; §505;
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of living creatures.
to take food, take a meal
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  • Sé itt and drincð mid ðǽm synfullum,

    • Past. 327, 3
      • .

  • Eatað ðearfan

    edent pauperes,

    • Ps. Srt. 21, 27
      • .

  • Ðá þá se Godes wer æt (ætt, v. l.), se munuc stód him ætforan,

    • Gr. D. 144, 1
      • .

  • Ðíne suna and ðíne dohtra ǽton and druncon mid heora yldestan bréðer,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 450, 16
      • .

  • Hí ǽton ǽne on dæg,

    • Bt. 15
      • ;
    • F. 48, 8
      • .

  • Éton

    manducaverunt,

    • Ps. Srt. 21, 30
      • .

  • Et

    (comede)

    and drinc and gewista,

    • Lk. 12, 19
      • .

  • Ne gedyrstlǽcen hí þæt hý áhwǽr út of mynstre etan, þeáh hý hwá bidde,

    • R. Ben. 79, 17
      • .

  • Et(a)n

    aepulari,

    • An. Ox. 56, 81.
to eat food, &c.
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  • Ic eotu flésc ferra

    manducabo carnes taurorum,

    • Ps. Srt. 49, 13.

  • On ǽrmergen hé yteð (eteð, iteð, v. ll.) hlóþe,

    • Bd. 1, 34
      • ;
    • Sch. 104, 13
      • .

  • Ðæt folc ætt þæs lambes flǽsc,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 266, 15
      • .

  • Drinc ꝥ wæter and et þá wyrta,

    • Lch. ii. 110, 9.

  • Etað þisne hláf,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 266, 33
      • .

  • Ꝥ man gódne mete ete,

    • Bl. H. 57, 5.
to eat habitually, as a regular article of food:
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  • Næbbe gé líf on eów búton gé eton mín flǽsc . . . Sé ðe et mín flǽsc, hé wunað on mé . . . Sé ðe et ðisne hláf, hé leofaðon écnysse,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 266, 25-32
      • .

  • Ælcne mete hé onscunedon þe men etaþ, and wilnodon ðára þe deór etaþ,

    • Bt. 38, 1
      • ;
    • F. 196, 4
      • .

  • Treówa wæstmas hí ǽton and wyrta,

    • 15
      • ;
    • F. 48, 9.

  • Hí hláf ne ǽton . . . , ac ǽton manna líchaman,

    • Bl. H. 229, 8.
to eatof something:
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  • Fela monna ǽton of ðám heofonlican mete on ðám wéstena,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 274, 20
      • .

  • Sittað under ðám fíctreówe and etað of his wæstmum,

    • Bl. H. 239, 7
      • .
to provide food for a person (dat.)
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  • Hí ǽton (eoton, v. l.) him of Hamtúnscíre and of Súð-Seaxum,

    • Chr. 998
      • ;
    • P. 131, 17
      • .
to devour, consume, destroy
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  • Þú etst (etest, v. l.) úre æceras

    nostri agros depastas,

    • Ælfc. Gr. Z. 104, 19
      • .

  • Ðeóf eteð and spilleð

    fur mactat et perdat,

    • Jn. R. L. 10, 10
      • .

  • Ic et

    exedi,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 36
      • .
of things,
of the action of physical agents,
where it is gradual
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  • Hine æt se cancor,

    • Hml. S. 6, 284
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  • Seó sealf wile ꝥ deáde flǽsc of etan,

    • Lch. ii. 332, 25
      • .
where it is rapid
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  • Sió onlícnes sendde mycel wæter þurh hiora múþ and hié (hit?) æt manna líchaman, and hit ácwealde heora bearn . . . Þæt wæter weóx, and swíþe hit æt hyra líchaman,

    • Bl. H. 245, 24-33
      • .

  • Þá eotendan

    edaces (flammas),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 11
      • :
    • 31, 53
      • .
of passion, &c.
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  • Þínes húses anda mé et

    (comedit),

    • Jn. 2, 17
      • .

  • Iteð,

    • Ps. Srt. 68, 10
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “etan.” 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/44256.

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