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for-fón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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for-fón, ic -fó, ðú -féhst, he -féhþ, pl. -fóþ; p. ic, he -féng, ðú -fénge, pl. -féngon; pp. -fangen, -fongen [for-, fón to take] .
Wright's OE grammar
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  • Næbbe his ágne forfongen [hæbbe his ágen forfangen MS. H.]

    let him not have forfeited his own [let him have forfeited his own, MS. H.],

    • L. Alf. pol. 2
      • ;
    • Th. i. 62, 6.
to take violently or by surprise, clutch, arrest, seize; vehementer căpĕre, imprōviso adventu căpĕre, prehendĕre, apprehendĕre, deprehendĕre
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  • Swá þeóf sorgleáse hæleþ semninga forféhþ slǽpe gebundne

    as a thief suddenly surprises careless mortals bound in sleep,

    • Exon. 20 b
      • ;
    • Th. 54, 25
      • ;
    • Cri. 874.

  • Ealle deáþrǽs forféng

    the death-rush clutched them all.

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1990
      • ;
    • An. 997.

  • Ǽr ðú ða miclan meaht mín forfénge

    ere thou didst arrest my great power.

    • Exon. 73 a
      • ;
    • Th. 273, 26
      • ;
    • Jul. 522.

  • Forfóh ðone frætgan, and fæste geheald

    seize the proud one [the devil], and firmly hold [him ],

    • Exon. 69 b
      • ;
    • Th. 259, 18
      • ;
    • Jul. 284.

  • For ðam gylpe gumena drihten forfangen wearþ, and on fleám gewát

    for that boast the lord of men [Nebuchadnezzar] was seized [with madness], and in flight departed.

    • Cd. 205
      • ;
    • Th. 254, 19
      • ;
    • Dan. 614.
[
O. Sax. farfahan
:
Ger. verfangen.
]
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v.  fore-fón.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “for-fón.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/11447.

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