bugan

Meaning

1. to bend

   c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 1:7

   Someone stronger is coming after me, who I'm unfit to bend down and untie the straps of his sandals.

2. to bow

   Hē wæs ācenned on þæs cāseres dagum þe wæs Octaviānus ġehāten, sē ġerȳmde Rōmāna rīċe tō þon swīðe þæt him eall middanġeard tō bēag.

   He was born in the days of the emperor Octavian, who expanded the Roman Empire so much that the whole world bowed to him.

   c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Nativity of Our Lord"

3. to turn (toward or away from something)

   ...þæt is būh fram yfele and dō gōd.

   ...'Turn from evil, and do good.'

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Ash-Wednesday"

4. to yield, give way

5. to submit

   Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 912

   Then King Edward traveled with some of his forces to Maldon in Essex, and encamped there while the fortifications were being built in Witham, and a good portion of the people submitted to him who had been living under Danish rule.

6. to withdraw, retire

   c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13

   The person who was healed didn't know who it was: Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.

7. to incline

   Nāst þū lā Geori þæt ūre godas swincað mid þē and ġit hī synd ġeþyldiġe þæt hī þe miltsion. Nū lǣre ic ðē swā swā lēofne sunu þæt ðū þæra cristenra lāre forlǣte mid ealle and tō mīnum rǣde hraðe ġebūge swā þæt ðū offriġe þām ārwurðan Appoline and þū mycelne wurðmynt miht swā beġitan.

   Knowest thou not, O George, that our gods are striving with thee, and even yet they are patient, that they may pity thee; now I exhort thee, as a beloved son, that thou altogether quit the Christians' doctrine, and quickly incline to my counsel, so that thou sacrifice to the venerable Apollo, and thou mayest so obtain great honour.

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint George, Martyr"

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