• āsmēan,āsmēaġean,āsmēaġian

Equivalent toā- +‎smēaġan.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈsmæ͜ɑː.jɑn/

āsmēaġan

1. tolook into closely,investigate
2. toconsider,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 swiðorāsmēaġan 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 ratherconsider their desire than their possession.

3. tofind out by investigating,devise
4. todeem,judge

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

• Joseph Bosworth;T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ĀSMĒAGAN”, inAn Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford:Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth;T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ĀSMĒAGAN supplemental input”, inAn Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford:Oxford University Press.

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