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fágettan
/fa:ɣetan /*
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Related §§ in Wright's OE Grammar:
fágettan
. Add: (1) literal, to change colour, grow dark(cf. Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 35. v. fág) :-- Se fulla móna fágettað, þonne hé ðæs sunlican leóhtes bedǽled bið þurh ðǽre eorðan sceadwunge, Hml. Th. i. 608, 33. (2) to quibble, use with double meaning :-- Cwæð Ualerianus tó ðám cýðere : "Ágif ðá mádmas." Se cýðere him andwyrde: "On Godes ðearfum ic hí áspende, and hí sind ðá écan mádmas." Se geféfa cwæð: "Hwæt fágettest ðú mid wordum ?" (why do you use this word treasures with double meaning?), Hml. Th. i. 422, 34. Cf. fágian.
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Possibly connected entries from the Main Volume:

fágettan
, fágetan, fággetan; p. te; pp. ed To turn colour, change, vary; văriāre :-- Se móna fággeteþ [fágetteþ MS. R; fágeteþ MS. P] oððe asweartaþ the moon turns colour or becomes dark, Bd. de nat. rerum; Lchdm. iii. 240, 23; Wrt. popl. science 5, 15.
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