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ge-brecan

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  • Gebrǽce

    elideret,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 33, 9.
lit.
to break.
without sense of injury
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  • Mið ðý onféng hláf and gebræcg

    (fregif),

      Lk. L. 22, 19: 24, 30.
  • Gebrægc,

      Mk. L. 6, 41.
with sense of injury done,
to the body
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  • Sé ðe faelles ofer stán ðiosne gebrocen (-broken, R.) bið (confringetur); ofer ðone fallas gebrecceð

    (conteret)

    hine,
      Mt. L. 21, 44.
  • Bán ni gebraecgað gé

    (comminuetis),

      Jn. L. 19, 36.
  • Him hildegráp bánhús gebræc,

      B. 2508.
  • Leg þæt bán-hús gebrocen hæfde, 3147 : Ph. 229.
  • Líc sáre gebrocen, bánhús blódfág,

      An. 1406.
  • Gif þeóh gebrocen weorðed. Ll. Th. i. 18, 13: 12, 6.
  • Hwæþer hé lenge ǽr áfeólle oððe gebrocen wurde,

      Lch. ii. 258, 25.
  • þá gebrocenan bán, Ps. C.
      81.
to a thing,
to break to pieces, demolish, break up
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  • Hé manig templ and deófolgyld gebræc and gefylde . . . Hé bæd ꝥ hé ðæt deófolgild gebrǽce and gefylde. Þá hé hit gebrecan ne móste, þá cómon twégen englas . . . and ꝥ gild gebrǽcan,

      Bl. H. 221, 2-32.
  • Nó gebrocen weorðeð holt on híwe,

      Ph. 80.
  • Wong gebrocen tó beorgum,

      Rum. 33.
fig.
to crush, destroy
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  • Ic gebreocu hié swé swé dúst

    comminuam illos ut pulverem,

      Ps. Srt. 17, 43.
  • Hornas synfulra ic gebreocu

    (confringam),

      74, 11.
  • Hé on þám folce feóndgyld gebræc,

      Ps. Th. 105, 24.
  • Þára manna bearn þe ǽr man gebræc

    elisos,

      145, 7.
  • Hé eall þæt mægn þæs áwyrgedan gástes on him gebræc,

      Guth. 60, 5.
intrans. with prep. To break into,
interrupt
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  • ꝥ þé ne þúhte tó hefig ꝥ þú ongunne hwæthugu gebrecan in þone wísdóm þǽre gerecenysse

    neque pro hac re interrumpere expositionis studium grave videatur,

      Gr. D. 7, 34.
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