"withseien" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Middle English]

Etymology: From Old English wiþsecgan (“withsay”), adapted to reflect the change of the verb secgan (“say”) to Middle English seien; equivalent to with- + seien. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|wiþsecgan||withsay}} Old English wiþsecgan (“withsay”), {{m|ang|secgan||say}} secgan (“say”), {{cog|enm|seien}} Middle English seien, {{af|enm|with-|seien}} with- + seien Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} withseien
  1. to speak against, that is:
    to protest, to deny; to refute, to speak out against, to oppose in speech
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-ydFleDTC Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup, Middle English terms prefixed with with- Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 40 4 6 18 3 5 6 6 7 5 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 41 4 7 16 4 4 6 5 7 6 Disambiguation of Middle English terms prefixed with with-: 45 5 5 15 3 3 6 5 7 5
  2. to speak against, that is:
    to disparage; to denounce
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-5bJHcIOV
  3. to speak against, that is:
    to contemn, to display contempt for
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-64VZbPHb
  4. to speak against, that is:
    to renounce, to repudiate, to give up
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-O6poV9eM
  5. to speak against, that is:
    to refuse; to forbid, to refuse permission to
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-yqrq6mmY
  6. to speak against, that is:
    to decline, to refuse to do or accept
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-msM3W3FZ
  7. to speak against, that is:
    to reply
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb--XxL0Z-~
  8. to speak against, that is:
    (law) to appeal, to contest the validity of a legal decision
    Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-k5ziqbwt Topics: law
  9. to speak against, that is:
    (law) to challenge, to contest the validity of a claim or argument
    Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-QIPT1rxi Topics: law
  10. to speak against, that is:
    (law) to disavow, to contest the validity of an oath
    Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-withseien-enm-verb-5ch6NaOn Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: withseyen, wiþseyen, wiðseyen, witheseine, withseggen, witsiggen

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.