dreogan

Meaning

1. to do, take, perform (a service, duty etc.)

   Hǣðensċipe biþ þæt man dēofolġield weorðiġe, þæt is þæt man weorðiġe hǣðenu godu and sunnan oþþe mōnan, fȳr oþþe flōd, wæterwiellas oþþe stānas oþþe ǣniġes cynnes wudutreowu, oþþe wiċċecræft lufiġe oþþe morðweorc ġefremme on ǣniġe wīsan, oþþe on blōte oþþe frihte, oþþe swelcra gedwimera ǣniġ þing drēoge.

   Worshiping idols is a kind of paganism, whether one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon, or fire or flood, or wells or stones or any kind of forest trees, or if one loves witchcraft or commits murder in any way, either by sacrifice or by divination, or takes any part in similar delusions.

   c. 1021, Wulfstan, Winchester Code of Cnut, article 5.1:

2. to bear, suffer, undergo, endure

   Þæt sē beorn ne wāt, eft ēadiġ seċġ, hwæt þā sume drēogað þe þā wræclāstas wīdost leċġað.

   The warfarer does not know, the blessed again man, what some folks undergo who widely go through exile-paths.

   10th century, The Seafarer:

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