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æfter-weard

  • adjective
  • adverb
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Wright's OE grammar
§567; §637;
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adj.
later, latter
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  • Ver novum fore*-*weard lencten vel middewærd lencten, ver adultum æfterweard lencten.

    Eodem modo et aestas et autumnus vocantur,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 53, 27.
being behind (?),
absent
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  • Ðeáh ðe hé lícumlíce ðǽr æfterweard (æfweard, v. l.) wǽre

    quamvis corporaliter absens,

      Bd. 3, 15; Sch. 264, 6.
adv. prep.
After
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  • Hí urnon ealle him æfterweard,

      Hml. S. 31, 995.
  • Weorþan æfterweard

    to be after, to pursue, follow

    :-- Iohannes heów ðæt hors mid ðám spuran and wearð him æfterweard . . . and cwæð tó ðám fleóndum,
      Ælfc. T. 18, 22: Rä. 16, 14.
  • Petrus wearð æfterweard

    Peter followed,

      Hml. Th. i. 374, 6.
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v. æfte-weard.
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  • æfter-weard, adj.; adv.