asmeagan

• āsmēan, āsmēaġean

Equivalent to ā- +‎ smēaġan.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈsmæ͜ɑː.jɑn/

āsmēaġan

1. to look into closely, investigate
2. to consider, ponder
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

     Wén is þæt eower sum cweðe to him sylfum on stillum geðohtum, Hwæt forleton has gebroðru, Petrus and Andreas, þe for nean nán ðing næfdon? ac we sceolon on þisum ðinge heora gewilnunge swiðor āsmēaġan þonne heora gestreon.

     It is to be expected that one of you in his still thoughts say to himself, What did the brothers, Peter and Andrew, leave, who had almost nothing? but in this case we should rather consider their desire than their possession.

3. to find out by investigating, devise
4. to deem, judge

• āsmēaġendlīc
• āsmēaġung f (“investigation, meditation”)

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĀSMĒAGAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĀSMĒAGAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.