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to injure by striking, cut through or break with a stroke, wound with a blow
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  • Heó slóh tó his hneccan, and mid twám slegum forslóh him þone swuran

    percussit bis in cervicem ejus et abscidit caput ejus,

    • Hml. A. 111, 305
      • .

  • Gif mon óðrum þá hond útan forsleá ... gif hió healf onweg fleóge,

    • Ll. Th. i. 98, 7
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  • Gif mon óðrum rib forsleá ... gif sió hýd sié tóbrocen, and mon bán of ádó,

    • 11: 21.

  • Hét se cásere him forsleán þone sweoran,

    • Shrn. 145, 6
      • .

  • Mid stengum heora sweoran forsleán,

    • 134, 7
      • .

  • Gif sió lendenbrǽde bið forslegen (-slægen, v. l.),

    • Ll. Th. i. 98, 1.
to slay, kill:
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  • Wearð hé gefliémed and his folces fela forslagen,

    • Ors. 5, 12
      • ;
    • S. 240, 28
      • .

  • Mid sweordum and mid mancwealme hí wǽron forslægene (-sleg-, v. l.)

    gladiis et pestilentia vastati sunt,

    • Gr. D. 192, 4.
to destroy a thing, lay waste:
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  • Se wíngeard wæs forslagen (-sleg-, v. l.) and forhergod mid hægle

    vinea grandine vastata est,

    • Gr. D. 57, 5.
to put an end to, finish (?):
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  • Forslægenum

    expletis (cf. expuncta, expleta,

    • Corp. Gl. H. 482
      • ),
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 1
      • .
to make slaughter of, defeat with slaughter, beat an enemy.
as a military term
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  • Hié mon gefliémde and swíþe forslóg,

    • Ors. 2, 5
      • ;
    • S. 84, 20
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    • 3, 9
      • ;
    • S. 124, 3.

  • Eft wǽron Rómáne forslægen and gefliémed

    iterum Romani pari clade superati sunt,

    • 4, 8
      • ;
    • S. 186, 28
      • .

  • Gefliémed and swíþor forslagen

    amisso exercitu,

    • 32.

  • Rómáne wunnan wið Fulcisci and wurdon swíþe forslægene

    consulem Volsci superarant,

    • 2, 6
      • ;
    • S. 88, 3
      • .
figurative,
to rout, overthrow
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  • Forslaegen

    proflicta,

    • Txts. 89, 1662
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  • Forslaegenum (forsleginum, Ep., faerslaeginum, Erf.)

    profligatis (v. (?) profligatis tenebrarum principibus,

    • Ald. 54, 6
      • ),
    • 1637
      • .

  • Forslægenum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 37
      • .
to condemn.
Cf.
O. H. Ger. fer-slahan damnare
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  • forslegen

    adictus (v. for-scrífan; I.),

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 69.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. fer-slahan re-, suc-cidere, perimere, jugulare, necare.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “for-sleán.” 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/45949.

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