forgreithen
Middle English
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[edit]fōrgreithen (third-person singular simple present forgreitheth, present participle forgreithende, forgreithynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forgreithed)
- To get ready beforehand; to prepare.
- c. 1400, Psalm 20:12 [now 21:12], in the Northern Verse Psalter (Surtees Psalter) [British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.7 manuscript]; published in Joseph Stevenson, editor, Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter: Now First Printed from Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume I, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, Parliament Street; William Pickering, Piccadilly; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1843, OCLC 832497574, page 59:
- For set am hindward saltou swa, / And in þair levynges for-graiþe lickam of þa.
- Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, / when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. [Bible (Authorized Version).]
- c. 1400, Psalm 20:12 [now 21:12], in the Northern Verse Psalter (Surtees Psalter) [British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.7 manuscript]; published in Joseph Stevenson, editor, Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter: Now First Printed from Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume I, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, Parliament Street; William Pickering, Piccadilly; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1843, OCLC 832497574, page 59:
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[edit]- “fōr(e-greithen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2016-10-18.