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ge-hweorfan

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to turn, direct
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  • Gif hié ðátrumnesse ðǽre Godes giefe him tó unnyte gehweorfað

    si acceptae incolumitatis gratiam ad usum nequitiae inclinent

    ,
      Past. 247, 8.
to overturn
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  • Hé gehwerf[d]

    subvertit (insidias impiorum),

      Kent. Gl. 315.

  • Áhwerfdon vel gehwurfan

    evertere

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 28.
to exchange. Cf. ge-hwearf
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  • Hió becwið him hyre goldfágan treów-enan cuppan, þæt hé íce his beáh mid þam golde, oþþe hí mon æt him gehweorfe mid . xvi. mancussum reádes goldes. Cht. Th. 536, 20.
intrans.
to return
to a place
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  • Hé gehwearf þonan tó his ágnum,

      Chr. 584 ; P. 294, 6.

  • Hig gehwurfon (

    regressi sunt

    ) on
      Hieru-salem, Lk. 24, 52.

  • Of þám æcere gehworfenum

    regresso de agro

    ,
      17, 7.
to a position, condition, &c.
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  • ꝥ hé geearnode, ꝥ hé eft gehwurfe tó his fæder gife and freóndscipe,

      Gr. D. 238, 13.
of action,
to turn
to a person
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  • Gehweorfen tó ;mé þá þe hyldu tó dé áhtan

    convertantur ad me qui piment te

    ,
      Ps. Th. 118, 79.
to action
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  • Ðæt hé gehweorfe tó hreówsunga

    ad poenitentiae lamenta conversus

    ,
      Past. 167, 18.
of happening,
to be transferred, pass to
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  • Asiria anwald gehwearf on Méðas

    Arbatus regni summam ad Medos transtulit

    ,
      Ors. 2, I ; S. 60, 17 : I. 8 ; S. 42, 6.
to turn back, be averted
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  • Gesecge man hwǽr ǽnig gewin ǽr þǽm crístendome swá gehwurfe, gif hit ongunnen wǽre

    yui praeteritis temporibus de compres-sione bellorum simile probarit exemplum,

      Ors. 6, 4; S. 260, 7.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-hwerban conuerti.]
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v. ge-hwirfan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-hweorfan.” 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/48442.

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