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a-flýman

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-flýman, p. de; pp. ed; v. trans, [a, flýman]
Wright's OE grammar
§646;
To cause to flee, put to flight, drive away, banish, scatter, disperse; fugare, in fugam vertere, ejicere, pellere, dispergere
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  • He swá manigne man aflýmde

    he caused so many men to flee.

    • Byrht. Th. 138, 61
    • ;
    • By. 243
    • .
  • Ðú me aflýmst

    tu me ejicis,

    • Gen. 4, 14
    • .
  • Wurdon twegen æðelingas aflýmde of Sciððian

    two noblemen were driven from Scythia,

    • Ors. 1, 10; Bos. 32, 34
    • .
  • Sý he aflýmed

    let him be [as one] banished,

    • L. Alf. pol. 2 ; Th. i. 60, 17, note
    • .
  • And eall his weored oððe ofslægen wæs oððe aflýmed

    ejusque totus vel interemptus vel dispersus est exercitus,

    • Bd. 2, 20; S. 521, 13
    • .
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v.  á-flíman a-fliéman.
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