Old Irish

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Verb

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cloïd (conjunct ·cloí, verbal noun cloüd)

  1. to overthrow, overcome
  2. to vanquish, destroy
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 18
      I ndithrub Pardais, ro·cloï-som Adam; i ndithrub in domuin, ra·cloï-som Críst.
      In the wilderness of Paradise, [the Devil] has vanquished Adam; in the wilderness of the world, Christ has vanquished him.

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  • Middle Irish: cloíd

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