† tweon, v. Obs.
[OE. twéonian (with variant tw{yacu}nian), f. twéon doubt, a derivative from the same root as two.]
intr. To be doubtful, to doubt; to debate.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xvi. 102 Ᵹif hie ðonne ᵹit ðær tweonað, gongen ðonne to ðæm halᵹum ᵹewritum. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxviii. 17 Witodlice sume hiᵹ tweonedon. c 1160 Hatton Gosp. Mark xi. 23 Swa hwilc swa..on his heorte ne tweoneð. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Ȝunge monnan mei tweonian hweðer hi moten alibban. c 1205 Lay. 907 Þa wile þe heo tweoneden þus Clepede Membricius. Ibid. 25741 Þæ cnihtes þa tweoneden To whaþere heo faren mihten. |