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Old English
Verb
abarian
- to abare, make bare, strip
- to expose, discover
Conjugation
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References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “á-barian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Johnson, Mary Lynch (1927), “abarian”, in A modern English - Old English Dictionary (Thesis), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
1946, Gertrude E Noyes, The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson (in English), page 86:from the Saxon word Abarian, to make bare, uncover, or disclose.
1720, Edward Phillips, The New World of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing and Account of the Original Or Proper Sense and Various Significations of All Hard Words Derived from Other Languages (in English):Abarnare, an old Latin law-term, signifying to detect or discover any secret crime; derived from the Saxon word abarian, to make bare, uncover, or discover
1838, A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (quotation in English; overall work in English):Abarian; pp. ed ; v. a. [bar bare, naked] To make bare, to manifest, detect, discover, disclose; denudare: — þu abarast ure spraece, Jos. 2, 20.