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hinder-genga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hinder-genga, an; m.
one that goes backward (epithet of a crab)
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  • Hindergenga

    retrograda (Nepa mihi nomen . , . passibus Oceanum retrograda transeo versis.

    • Aid. 254, 30
    • ),
    • An. Ox. 26, 23
    • .
one that goes back from the faith he has professed, an apostate
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  • (cf. Manega his leorningcnihtas cyrdon onbæc and ne eódun mid him,

    • Jn. 6, 66
    • .

    Homo apostata, i. retrogradiens,

    • Kent. Gl. 141)
  • Hindergengena

    apostatarum.

    • An. Ox. 5, 16.
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v.  genga.
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