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á-cuman

  • verb
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To come
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  • Hé ne mihte búton ðám hrófe ácuman

    he could not get outside the house,

      Hml. Th. ii. 184, 12.
trans.
to bear, bring
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  • Hí þurh deófles láre ðá menniscnesse tó deáðe ácóman,

      Wlfst. 22, 23.
to bear, support trouble, &c.
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  • Hwá ácymð

    quis sustinebit, Bl. Gl. Ic ácom certavi (bonum certamen ),

      An. Ox. 1349.
  • Strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom (mihte ácuman,

    v. l.

    ),
      Chr. 1040; P. 160, 30.
  • Heó éhtnysse ácom,

      Hml. S. 7, 3.
  • Hé ǽlc þing dó and ácume,

      R. Ben. 113, 10.
  • Hé wítu ácóme,

      Hml. S. 23, 119.
  • Ðæt hí ðone cyle ácóman,

      11, 221.
  • Ácuman

    (impetum) ferre, perferre,

      Kent. Gl. 1014: An. Ox. 7, 314.
  • Ácuman costnunge, ceáste, módleáste, graman,

      Hml. Th. i. 4, 8: Hml. S. 7, 243: 9, 125: Hml. A. 100, 266.
  • Úre ceaster is þearfende and ne mæg ðíne æðelborennesse ácuman,

      Ap. Th. 9, 8.
  • Ðæt hé nánum men máre ne beóde ðonne hé ácuman mæge

    ut auditoris sui animum ultra vires non trahat,

      Past. 459, 7.
  • Ne mæg ic ána ácuman (

    sustinere

    ) eall ðis folc,
      Num. 11, 14.
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