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to take away, deprive
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  • Benumen

    orbata,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 25.
  • Binumni adempta, binumini (-e)

    ablata,

      Txts. 42, 102, 104.
with dat. of person,
acc. of thing
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  • Hé heora feorh him benam

    interfecit eos,

      Jud. 8, 21.
  • Benam hé him (hine, v. l.) his bis-ceopscíre

    deposuit eum de episcopatu,

      Bd. 4, 6; Sch. 381, 13.
gen. of thing
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  • Ne mæg þára yflena yfel þám (þá,

    v. l.

    ) goodan beniman heora goodes,
      Bt. 37, 2; S. 113, 4.
with acc. of person, gen. of thing
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  • Benimð Wisle Ilfing hire naman Ors. I,

      I; S. 20, II. Hí
    eów benimað eówres lífes. Wlfst. 207, 16.
  • Buton hié hié þæs naman benáme,

      Ors. 2, 8; S. 94, 4.
  • Benámon. 7.
  • Ðone beniman (-neoman, v. l.) þǽre aldorlicnesse

    eum privare auctoritate.

      Bd. I, 27; S. 74, 8.
  • Hé ðǽre hǽlo benumen wierð,

      Past. 251, 10: Wlfst. I. II: Chr. 919; P. 105, 32.
  • Mé hæfþ þeós gnornung þǽre gemynde benumen,

      Bt. 5, 3; S. 12, 20.
  • Hine hæfde Penda ríces benumenne,

      Chr. 658; P. 32, 6.
  • Hié wǽron benumene ceápes,

      895; P. 88, 16.
to comprehend, contain
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  • Benumene

    comprehensum,

      Jn. p. I. 7.
to apprehend, take
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  • Uíf benumen

    (deprehensa)

    in dernelegerscip,
      Jn. I. 8, 4.
Etymology
[O. Sax. bi-niman (dat. pers. acc. thing, acc. pers. gen. (or inst.) thing): O. Frs. bi-nima: O. H. Ger. pi-neman.]
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