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hopian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§106; §536;
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to look (mentally) with expectation to
(tô), hope for
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  • Án is þæt ðú hefst and brícst and lufast þæt ðæt þú ǽr tó hopedest. Eálá hweðer ic ǽfre cume tó ðám ðe ic tó hopie,

      Solil. H. 27, 15.

  • Hé forsihþ þás eorþlican gód and hopaþ tó þám tóweardum,

      Bt. 12 ; F. 36, 26.

  • Gehiéren ðá unblíðan ðá leán ðæs gefeán ðe hié tó hopiað

    tristibus inferenda sunt laela, quae promittuniur

    ,
      Past. 187, 18.

  • Hú sóðlic sió heánes is ðe hié tó hopiað and eác habbað

    quam sit vera excellentia, quam sperando tenent

    ,
      299, 5.

  • Þonne man wát þæt hé ér tó hopede,

      Solil. H. 29, 6.

  • Se sige þe eall Angelcynn tó hopode,

      Chr. 1009 ; P. 139, 8.

  • Hí tó ðám sceatte hopedon

    they hoped to get the offered reward

    ,
      Hml. S. 23, 53.

  • Ðý lǽs hé eallunga áfealle ðonon ðe hé fæsðlícost tó hopian scolde

    ne ab eo, quad robuste sperare debuit, funditus cadat

    ,
      Past. 395, II.
to be hopeful about (
with gen.)
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  • Hé ðá wæs geortrúwod þæs cildes, and gehwearf geðyldelíce hopiende þæs óðres

    he was in despair about the one child, and returned patient, being hopeful about the other

    ,
      Hml. S. 30, 179.
to trust, have confidence
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  • Tó þé ic hopige, Drihlen

    ad te, Domine, cla-mabo

    ,
      Ps. Th. 27, 1.

  • Hopa, mín mód, tó Drihtne and gebíd his willan

    expecta Dominum

    ,
      26, 16. ꝥ is se
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  • Ús is tó hopigenne on þæs Hǽlendes gescyldnesse, sé ðe ús tihte þus: ' Confidite, ego uici mundum', Angl. vii. 28, 270. III a.

    to trust that (with clause or (?) acc. and infin.) :-- Hopiað confidimus (laetabundos fore fiducialiter confidimus ),

      An. Ox. 3034.

  • Hopiað

    confidunt (caeterorum praeconia se transcendere con-fidunt ),

    940. III b. combining
and III a
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  • Ic hopige on Drihten ꝥ hé mé wylle áhreddan,

      Hml. S. 14,
to hope for
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  • Witodlíce þæt gesihð ǽghwylc hwæt hé hopige? Gif sóðlíce þæt wé ná geseóð wé hopiað, þurh geþyld wé geandbidigað,

      Scint. 130, 5.

  • Forgyfenysse wé hopian ueniam speremus, 19. IV a. with clause, to hope that :-- Ic hopige ꝥ cherubin se mǽra æt wesan wylle, Angl. viii. 325, 30. IV b. to hope of (tó) a person that :-- Hopode and gewil-node ꝥ hé hine þám abbode befæste

    petiit ab eo ut eum abbati commit-teret

    ,
      Gr. D. 27, 23.
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v. á-hopian, ge-hopian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hopian.” 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/52981.

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