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to drive away, off, out an object from a position of rest
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  • fordráf

    (eiecit)

    of ðǽm temple ðá scípo and ðá exin,

    • Jn. L. R. 2, 15
    • ;
    • Mt. L. 21, 12
    • .
  • Mið ðý fordrifenum (-drifnum, R.) allum ł mið ðý alle úte fordráf

    eiectis omnibus,

    • Mk. L. 5, 40
    • .
  • Hine fordrifon búta ðǽm wíngeard,

    • Mt. L. 21, 39
    • .
  • Fordriofon (-un, R.) hine út

    eiecerunt eum foras,

    • Jn. L. 9, 34.
to drive away illness, &c., cast out a devil:
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  • Gif ic fordrifo

    (eicio)

    dióules.

    • Mt. L. 12, 27
    • .
  • Feber fordráf

    febre depulsa,

    • Mk. p. 2, 12
    • .
  • Forcuóm ł fordráf ungeleáffulnise hiora

    exprobrauit incredulitatem eorum,

    • Mk. L. R. 16, 14
    • .
  • Cynn ðæt mið gebed tó fordrífenne

    (pellendum),

    • Mt. p. 18, 2
    • .
  • Unclǽnnise fordrifeno

    (depulsa),

    • Rtl
    • ;
    • 97, 31
    • .
  • Fordrifenum ús miste

    depulsa nobis caligine,

    • 38, 7.
to drive out from a permanent position, to banish, expel
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  • Her Æþelstán cyning fordráf Gúðfrið cyning,

    • Chr. 927
    • ;
    • P. 107, 1
    • .
  • Gif mon gesíðcundne monnan ádrífe, fordrífe þý botle, næs þǽre setene,

    • Ll. Th. i. 146, 7
    • .
  • Ꝥte hine ne fordrife búta ðæt lond

    ne se expelleret extra regionem.

    • Mk. L. R. 5, 10
    • .
  • Sume þá munecas hé hét ofsleán, sume on elþiéde fordrífan,

    • Ors. 6, 34
    • ;
    • S. 290, 5
    • .
  • Alle wítgo inngeonga in ríc Godes gié fordrifeno (-drifne, R.) úta

    (expelli foras),

    • Lk. L. 13, 28
    • :
    • Mt. p. 15, 14
    • .
  • Ꝥte of ðǽr somnung néræ fordrifeno ([man] ne fordrife, R.)

    ut de synagoga non eicerentur,

    • Jn. 12, 42
    • .
of a moving object,
to drive aside from its course
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  • Ðá gestód hine heáh weder; wearþ ðá fordrifan on án íglond út on ðǽre Wendelsǽ,

    • Bt. 38, 1
    • ;
    • F. 194, 11
    • .
to subject to excessive toil or hardship, to overtask
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  • Eálá hú earmlice and hú reówlic tíd wæs ðá, ðá ðá wreccæ men lǽgen fordrifene full neáh tó deáðe, and syððan cóm se scearpa hungor and ádyde hí mid ealle,

    • Chr. 1086
    • ;
    • P. 218, 1
    • .
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. fordrive.
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