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tó-slúpan

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-slúpan, p. -sleáp, pl. -slupon; pp. -slopen
To slip apart or away, be relaxed, dissolved
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  • Heó wæs tólésed ł tóslopen

    dissolvebatur, collabebatur,

      Hpt. Gl. 502, 7.

  • Tóslopen remissus, Germ. 393, 137:

    dissipatnm,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 31.

  • Ábogene, tóslopene

    dimissa, i. humilia,

      140, 31.
of that which is bound, to have the connection between several objects or
that between the parts of the same object relaxed
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  • Gif hé hí ne bunde mid his unábindendlícum racentum, ðonne tóslupan hí ealle

    conjuncta naturarum ipsa diversitas dissociaret atque divelleret, nisi unus esset, qui quod nexuit contineret.

      Bt. 35, 2 ; Fox 158, 1: 34, 12; Fox 154, 3.
  • Hæfþ God geheaborade ealle his gesceafta, ð æt heora ǽc wræðeþ óþer, ðæt hié ne móton tóslúpan, 21 ; Fox 74, 11.

  • Se godcunda foreþonc heaþeraþ ealle gesceafta ðæt hí ne móton tóslúpan of heora endebyrdnesse

    providentia suis quaeque nectit ordinibus,

      39, 5 ; Fox 218, 31.

  • Mid wriþan gewriþen grundweall ná byþ tóslopen

    lora*-*mento conligatum fundamentum non dissoluitur,

      Scint. 200, 9.

  • Gif se án gestæððega cyning ne staþelode ealla gesceafta, ðonne wurdon hí ealle tóslopene and tóstencte, and tó náuhte wurdon ealle gesceafta quae mine stabilis continet ordo, dissepta suo fonte fatiscant, Bt. 39, 13 ; Fox 234, 27. I a.

    to be dissipated, destroyed:

    — -Smyre ða sár, hý tó*-*slúpaþ,
      Lchdm. i. 268, 3.
  • Mótan sǽs tóslúpan, iii. 36, 27.
of that which binds,
to be loosed, undone
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  • Ðonne tóslupan ða bendas and tólýsede wǽron

    sunt vincula soluta,

      Bd. 4, 22; S. 591, 13, 22; 592, 7.

  • Ða wénde heó ðæt seó snód tóslupe, ac heó áfunde ða snóde mid eallum cnottum fæste gewriðen,

      Homl. Th. ii. 28, 25.

  • Gif hé ða (brídlas) lǽt tóslúpan

    hic si frena remiserit,

      Bt. 21; Fox 74, 33 : Met.II, 80.

  • Nú syndon Satanases bendas swýðe tóslopene, Wulfst. 83, 9. IIa. of illness :-- Seó fæstnys (costiveness) tóslýpeþ (-slípeþ,

    MS.

      B. ), Lchdm. i. 164, 20.
to get relaxed,
of material things
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  • Liþa tóslopene

    limbs relaxed in sleep.

      Hymn. Surt. 2, 10.
of non-material things,
to be relaxed, get remiss
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  • Ðonne mon lǽt tóslúpan ðone ege

    nimia resolutione lenitatis,

      Past. 40; Swt. 289, 2.

  • Ðæt un-geornfulle mód and ðæt tóslopene

    anima dissoluta,

      39; Swt. 283, 12.

  • Ð ænne geþanc orsorh byð ágyfen on slǽwþe mód byð tóslopen

    cum mens secura redditur, in torporem animus laxatur,

      Scint. 92, 17.
to get paralysed, get powerless,
physically
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  • Ðǽr ða sina tóslúpaþ. Lchdm. ii. 280, 3.
  • Ðá wearð se líchama eal tóslopen. Homl. Th. i. 86, 25.
  • Sum mǽden langlíce læg on legerbedde seóc, tóslopen on limum, sámcucu geðúht, ii. 510, 25.
  • Se læg seofon geár toslopenum limum. Homl. Skt. i. 6, 255.
in reference to the mind
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  • Ðá wearð heora heorte tóslopen and heora gást ne beláf on him

    dissolutum est cor eorum et non remansit in eis spiritus,

      Jos. 5, 1.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-slúpan.” 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/30855.

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