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▪ I. † swepe, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 swipu, swipe (suib-, swiop-, suiop-, sweop-, suyppu, swypu), 2–4 swepe, (2 swupe, 4 suepe, 5 swip).
[OE. swipu str. fem., swipe wk. fem., corresp. to ON. svipa str. fem., whip, f. weak grade of Teut. swaip-: sweip-: swip-: see swope v.1 and cf. swaip, swape.]
A scourge, whip.
a700Epinal Gloss. 641 Mastigia, suipan [Erfurt suibae]. c975Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 15 Cum fecisset quasi flagellum de funiculis, miððy ᵹiworhte swelce swiopa [Ags. Gosp. swipe] of rapun. a1000Sal. & Sat. 121 (Gr.) Swiðmode sweopan. a1175Cott. Hom. 231 Mid gode repples and stiarne swepen. Ibid. 239 Þe weregede gastes þe hine uniredlice underfangeð min stiarne swupen. c1200Ormin 15565 Crist himm wrohhte an swepe þær..& draf hemm alle samenn ut. a1300Cursor M. 19355 For þan wit suepes þai þam suang, And scurged sare, þai let þam gang. c1460Towneley Myst. xxiii. 470 Blo and blody thus am I bett, Swongen with swepys and alle to-swett.
▪ II. † swepe, n.2 Obs.
[Obscure; possibly an early instance of sweep n. in fig. sense.]
? Scope, significance (of a dream).
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2086 ‘Me wore leuere’, quad Ioseph, ‘Of eddi dremes rechen swep.’ Ibid. 2112. a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 248 For þai can swyth of a sweuyn all þe swepe telle.
▪ III. † swepe, v. Obs.
Also 8 Sc. sweap.
[? f. swepe n.1 or ad. ON. svipa to whip. Cf. swip v.]
trans. To scourge. Also † sweping vbl. n.
a1300E.E. Psalter xxxiv. [xxxv.] 15 Samened on me swepinges [L. flagella]. Ibid. xxxvii[i]. 18 [17] In swepinges am I dight. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis s.v. Swipper, Sweap, Scot.,..signifying to scourge. |