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tó-twǽman

  • verb [ weak ]
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tó-twǽman, p. de
Wright's OE grammar
§656;
To divide, separate, disjoin
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  • Ic tótwǽme

    disjungo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 47; Zup. 277, 4.
to divide, stand between objects,
separate one object from another
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  • Gewurðe fæstnis tómiddes ðám wæterum and tótwǽme (dividat) ða wæteru fram ðám wæterum. And God geworhte ða fæstnisse and tótwǽmde

    (divisit)

    ða wæteru, ðe wǽron under ðære fæstnisse, fram ðám ðe wǽron bufan ðære fæstnisse,
      Gen. 1. 6, 7.
to divide, part, dissociate, break the connection between
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  • Sume hé (

    the devil

    ) þurh graman tótwǽmþ,
      Homl. Th. i. 240, 26.

  • Ðonne se lichama and seó sánul hí tótwǽmaþ when body and soul part, Wulfst. 151, ll. Wé nellaþ ús nǽfre tótwéman

    we do not wish to be separated,

      Homl. Skt. i. 2, 71.

  • Hí siredon hú hí hié tótwǽman mehten

    Romani dolo divisere hostes,

      Ors. 3, 10 ; Swt. 138, 7.

  • Hié eft tótwǽmde wǽron,

      3, 7 ; Swt. 118, 20.

  • Loth férde fram eástdǽle, and hig wurdon tótwǽmede

    (divisi sunt)

    heora ǽgðer fram his bréðer,
      Gen. 13, 11.

  • Hí ne beóþ mid ǽnigum fæce fram him sylfum tótwǽmede; on eallum weorcum hi beóþ tógædere,

      Homl. Th. i. 500, 5.
to disperse, scatter
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  • Seó sunne tótwǽmþ ðære nihte þýstru mid hyre beorhtnysse, Anglia viii. 317, 6.

  • Wearð her on felda folc tótwǽmed, Byrht. Th. 138, 57; By. 241. III a, where the object is abstract :-- Beó dám hálgan tídan eallum mannum sibb and sóm gemǽne and ǽlc sacu tótwǽmed

    let every cause of strife be removed,

      L. Eth. vi. 25; Th. i. 320, 29: L. C. E. 17; Th. i. 370, II.
to divide with the mind,
distinguish, discern
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  • Se apostol tótwǽmed ðæs gástes naman and ðæs módes,

      Homl. Skt. i. 1, 189.

  • Tótwǽm ł tósceád intingan mínne

    discerne causam meam,

      Ps. Lamb. 42, 1.

  • Tótwǽmendum (-þwæm-, MS. )

    distinguente, dividente, ordinante.

      Hpt. Gl. 438, 54.

  • Ne gemengende hádas ne edwiste tótwǽmende

    neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam separantes,

      Ath. Crd. 4.
Etymology
[þe eorðe totwemde the earth yawned, Marh. 17, 28. Ure louerd totweamede his soule urom his bodie, A. R. 396, 20.]
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v. un-tótwsǽmed.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “tó-twǽman.” 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/30915.

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