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on-styrian

  • verb [ weak ]
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on-styrian, <b>. I.</b> in l. 1 after lîchoma insert hine,
and add
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  • Ne myhton hig nâhwyder þâ fæ̂mnan onstyrian . . . sume sceufon, sume tugon, and swŷðe swæ̂tton . . . and seó Godes fæ̂mne hwæðre stôd,

      Shrn. 154, 25.

  • Ne mihte hundteóntig oxena þone stân onstyrian (

    movere

    ),
      Gr. D. 49, 10.

  • Ongan ꝥ wrigels beón upp âhafen. Onstyredum þâm wrigelse . . .

    coepit operimentum sublevari. Quo commoto . . . ,

      160, 12.
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where the passion or feeling excited is given (dat.
or prep.)
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  • Hié beóð anstyred (on-,

    v. l.

    ) mid hiera ierre,
      Past. 293, 23.

  • Ic wæs swîðe mid hleahtre onstyred

    magno risu sum dissolutus,

      Nar. 19, 7.

  • Wæs hê miclum (mid miclum, v. l.) wylme and yrre onstyred

    nimio furore commotus,

      Bd. 1, 7; Sch. 23, 4.
where the exciting cause is given
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  • Ðâ wæs for his fromscype onstyred Ǽdon

    motus eius profectibus Aedan,

      Bd. 1, 34; Sch. 104, 15.
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v. in-styrian; un-onstyrod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-styrian.” 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/56663.

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