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FEORM

  • noun [ feminine ]
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FEORM, fiorm, fyrm, e; f.
food, provision, goods, substance; victus, substantia, bŏna
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  • Nó ðú ymb mínes ne þearft líces feorme leng sorgian

    thou needest not longer care about my body's food,

    • Beo. Th. 906
    • ;
    • B. 451.
  • Hí bærndon and awéston ðæs cynges feorme hámas [MS. hames]

    they burnt and laid waste the king's provision-homes [or farms ],

    • Chr. 1087
    • ;
    • Ed. 224, 13.
  • Twegra daga feorme

    provision for two days;

    firmam duōrum, diērum,
    • Th. Dipim. A. D. 950
    • ;
    • 501, 23
    • ;
    • 504, 14: Chr. 777
    • ;
    • Erl. 55, 10.
  • Gewát him mid cnósle, ofer Caldéa folc feran mid feorme, fæder Abrahames

    the father of Abraham departed with his family, with his goods, to travel over the Chaldeans' nation,

    • Cd. 83
    • ;
    • Th. 104, 6
    • ;
    • Gen. 1731: 126
    • ;
    • Th. 161, 2
    • ;
    • Gen. 2659.
  • Gewiton him eástan ǽhta lǽdan, feoh and feorme

    they departed from the east leading their possessions, cattle and substance,

    • Cd. 80
    • ;
    • Th. 99, 22
    • ;
    • Gen. 1650.
an entertaining, entertainment, feast; hospĭtālĭtas, convīvium, cœna
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  • Gif mon cierliscne monnan fliéman feorme téo

    if a man accuse a churlish man of the entertaining of a fugitive,

    • L. In. 30
    • ;
    • Th. i. 120, 16.
  • Án dǽl bisceope and his híréde for feorme and onfangenysse gesta and cumena

    ūna portio episcŏpo et fămĭliæ propter hospitālĭtātem atque susceptiōnem,

    • Bd. 1, 27
    • ;
    • S. 489, 7.
  • Ðætte ælþeódige bisceopas sýn þoncfulle heora gæstlíþnesse and feorme

    ut episcŏpi peregrīni contenti sint hospĭtālĭtātis mūnĕre oblāto,

    • 4, 5
    • ;
    • S. 573, 3.
  • To ðære écan feorme

    to the eternal feast,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 372, 5.
  • He gegearwode mycele feorme

    magnam cœnam fēcit,

    • Mk. Bos. 6, 21: Lk. Bos. 14, 12, 16: Homl, Th. ii. 370, 31: 372, 1, 3.
a place where provisions are kept, provision-quarters of an army; victus stătio
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  • Se here eódan him to heora gearwan feorme út þuruh Hamtúnscíre into Bearrucsíre to Reádingon

    the army went to their ready provision-quarters out through Hampshire into Berkshire to Reading,

    • Chr. 1006
    • ;
    • Th. 256, 20-22, col. 1.
use, benefit, profit, enjoyment; ūsus, fructus
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  • Ða swíðe lytle feorme, [fiorme MS. Hat.] ðata bóca wiston, forðæmðe hie heora nán wuht ongietan ne meahton

    they got very little benefit from the books, because they could not understand anything of them,

    • Past. pref
    • ;
    • Cot. MS.
Etymology
[
Chauc. farme meal
:
Laym. feorme; veorme feast.
]
Derived forms
bén-feorm, bend-, cyning-, eáster-, eástor-, gyt-, swíþ-, winter-, -feorme
Linked entries
v.  færm fiorm fyrm fearm firm.
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