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  • Eft gelíce

    identidem,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 47, 50.

  • Eft rǽdende

    lectitando,

      50, 23.

  • Wé nú gehýrdon þis godspel rǽdan, and þéh wé hit sceolan eft ofercweþan,

      Bl. H. 15, 31.

  • Wæs culufre eft (

    a second time

    ) of cofan sended,
      Gen. 1464: B. 1377.

  • Eft . . . níwan stefne,

      Gen. 1885: An. 1304.
  • Eft . . . óðre síðe, 706: 1677: Sat. 75.

  • Eft swá ǽr,

      An. 1276: 1343.

  • Eft swá ǽr . . . niówan stefne, B. 1787. I a. of replacement, restoration, renewal :-- Geðwegenum fótum eft sceógian hí

    lotis pedibus recalcient se,

      Angl. xiii. 413, 687.

  • Sceal beón se ingang eft geopenod,

      Bl. H. 9, 8.

  • Hú hé eft gesette seld sélran werode,

      Gen. 94: Dan. 641.

  • Þá wæs eft swá ǽr þeód on sǽlum,

      B. 642: An. 1478.
of return, reversal,
back, again
to a place
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  • Hí eóden and eft cómon,

      Hml. Th. i. 64, 7: Gen. 1478.

  • Hám eft becuman,

      El. 143.

  • Se heofonlica ǽrendwreca eft hám cerde,

      Bl. H. 9, 24.

  • Wǽron Egypte eft oncyrde,

      Exod. 451.

  • Nú wille ic eft þám líge neár,

      Gen. 760.

  • Hig æðelinges eft ne wéndon

    they did not expect the prince back,

      B. 1596.
to a condition
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  • Þú tó eorþan scealt eft geweorþan,

      Cri. 624.

  • Willflód ongan lytligan eft,

      Gen. 1413.
of giving
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  • Hé háteþ þá eorþan eft ágifan ꝥ heó ǽr onféng,

      Bl. H. 21, 30.
reversal of order
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  • Agof is mín noma eft onhwyrfed,

      Rä. 24, 1.
afterwards,
in reference to the past
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  • Sió ǽ wæs ǽrest on Ebrisc geðióde funden, and eft Creácas wendon hié on hiora ágen geðióde, and eft Lædenware swǽ same,

      Past. 7, 1-3.

  • Swá hié eft dydon,

      Cri. 455: Exod. 389: Sat. 374.

  • Ic sóna eft mé sylfum andwyrde,

      Past. 5, 21.

  • Gesceóp God Adam and Evah eft siððan . . . Beswác se ðeófol siððan eft ðá men,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 4-8.

  • Hé spræc tó Abrahame . . . Cwæð þá eft raðe tó Sarran,

      Gen. 2726: Sat. 229.

  • Hé eft æfter fæce geþrowade,

      Bl. H. 23, 30.

  • Eft ufaran dógrum,

      B. 2200.
in reference to the future,
hereafter
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  • Þæt þú ne secge eft, 'Ic gewelegode Abram,' Gen. 14, 23: Gen. 2145.
  • Ǽr seó mengeo eft tófaran sceolde, 1663: 2702.

  • Wá eów þe nú hlihaþ, for þon gé eft wépað on écnesse,

      Bl. H. 25, 23, 20: 55, 24: B. 1753.

  • Wé wǽron on wræcsíþ sende, and nú eft sceolon óþerne éþel sécan, Bl. H. 23, 6: Sat. 212: Gú. 1159. III a. afterwards, in a later part of a book :-- Eft rehþ

    infra subdit,

      An. Ox. 5167.
where there is a sequence of propositions, statements,
again
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  • Wæs gecueden ðætte ðá sácerdas ne scoldon nó hiera heáfdu scieran . . ., ne eft hí ne scoldon hira loccas lǽtan weaxan,

      Past. 139, 13.

  • Sé ðe ágiémeleásað ðá giémene . . ., oððe eft folgað ðǽre giémenne,

      87, 11: 321, 16.

  • Gehiéren hwæt áwriten is . . . and eft gehiérað ðone cwide,

      323, 10: Met. 7, 27: 11, 26.

  • Hwílum . . . hwílum eft,

      20, 215: Cri. 648: B. 2111.

  • Nǽnig eft . . .

    again no one . . .,

      Crä. 18.

  • Swá hit eft be eów Esaias mǽlde so, again, Isaiah said it of you, El. 350. ¶ In the Northern glosses the prefix re- in many Latin verbs is rendered by eft, but the English word is separable; cf. eft tó cerranne

    reuerti,

      Lk. R. L. 19, 12.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “eft.” 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/43834.

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