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wildan

  • verb [ weak ]
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wildan, p. de.
to tame, subdue
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  • Wylde domuit, i.

    vicit, mitigavit

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 141, 74.
,
to make submissive, have dominion over, rule, control
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  • Hit is swytol, ðæt man to hwón wylde (wilde, gewilde,

    v. ll.

    ) and woruldlíce stýrde ðám ðe oftost for Gode syn-godon and scendan ðás þeóde,
      Wulfst. 168, 2.

  • Wille ic ðæt . . . ic and míne þegnas wyldan úre preóstas tó ðan ðe úre sáula hyrdas ús tǽcaþ ðæt syndon úre bisceopas,

      L. Edg. S. l; Th. i. 272, 17.

  • Se ðe ðone mǽran noman abbodes underféhð, hé sceal mid twyfealdre láre ðawyldan and týn, ðe him underþeódde synt

    qui suscipit nomen abbatis duplici debet doctrina suis preesse discipulis

    ,
      R. Ben. II, 12.

  • Gyf mín hí ne beóþ wyldde

    si mei non fuerint dominati

    .
      Ps. Spl. 18, 14.
to take into one's power, to seize
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  • Ne dýde man on Sunnandæges freólse ǽnigne forwyrhtne man . . . ac wylde (wylde man hine,

    v. l. ; the old Latin version has

    capiatur) and healde, ðæt se freólsdæg ágán sý,
      L. C. S. 45 ; Th. i. 402, 12: L. E. G. 9; Th. i. 172, 14.
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v. ge-wildan (-wyldan), wilding.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “wildan.” 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/35727.

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