осенить

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic осѣнити (osěniti). By surface analysis, о (o) +‎ сень (senʹ) +‎ -ить (-itʹ).

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Verb

осени́ть (osenítʹpf (imperfective осеня́ть)

  1. (dated, poetic) to overhang, to spread (above), to spread as a canopy (over)
    осени́ть себя́ кре́стным зна́мениемosenítʹ sebjá kréstnym známenijemto cross oneself
  2. to dawn (upon)
    его́ осени́ло; его́ осени́ла мысльjevó osenílo; jevó oseníla myslʹit dawned upon him; a thought occurred to him

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