tosceadan

• tōscādan

Equivalent to tō- +‎ sceādan.

• IPA^(key): /toːˈʃɑː.dɑn/
• IPA^(key): /toːˈʃæ͜ɑː.dɑn/

tōsċeādan or tōsċēadan

1. (transitive, literal) to divide into two; to separate one thing from another (+ on tū)
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     Nēah ðam sǣ ðe Engla land and Pehta land tōscēadeþ.

     Near to the sea which separates England from Pictland.

2. (transitive, figurative)
   1. to divide into parties; to cause division
   2. to separate (such as contending parties); to judge or decide between
   3. to make a distinction; to distinguish between; to treat or look upon differently
   4. to separate one thing from another
   5. to separate with the mind; to discern, discriminate, or distinguish
   6. to separate things from another; to order, dispose, appoint
   7. to separate the parts of a confused whole; to expound, interpret, or render intelligible
3. to send in different directions; to scatter or disperse
4. (intransitive) to be separated; to differ
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:

     His līf tōscēd fram ūssa tīda āswundenesse.

     His life differed from our time's slothfulness.

• Middle English: toscheden, toschede, to schede, to scheden, to shædenn, to sheden

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