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framian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Take here fromian in Dict., and add:
to do good, benefit.
absolute
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  • Framað ualebit, Hpt. 31, 18, 495: Scint. 30, 13:

    proficit,

      20, 8: 160, 7.
  • Hwæt framaþ

    quid prodest,

      Wülck. Gl. 255, 34.
  • Gif hé ongyt þæt eal his hogu and gleáwscipe náht framað

    si viderit nihil suam prevalere industriam

    ,
      R. Ben. 52, 14.
  • Hyt framað (fremað,

    v.l.

    ),
      Lch. i. 270, 4.
  • Ne fromiað

    non proderunt,

      Kent. Gl. 313.
  • Furþor þonne hit framige (fremige,

    v.l., expedit), R. Ben.

      22, 4: 60, 23: Angl. xiii. 373, 111: 411, 666.
to do good to an object.
with dat.
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  • Þú náht frámast (

    profices

    ) heortan þínre,
      Scint. 7, 4.
  • For dý þe hé be dǽle þǽre stówe framaþ

    eo quod videatur aliquid conferre monasterio,

      R. Ben. 95, 7.
  • Þæt hit him eal framað

    sibi expedire,

      128, 18.
  • Framað (fremað,

    v.l.

    ),
      Lch. i. 300, 14.
  • Hí framigaþ heora bearnum,

      R. Ben. 137, 26.
  • Framedon

    profuerunt,

      Scint. 153, 10.
  • Framige (

    prosit

    ) ánra gehwylc óþron on cræfte hys,
      Coll. M. 31, 25.
  • Hú hé swýþor þám sáulum framian (fremian,

    v.l., prodesse

    ) mæge,
      R. Ben. 119, 19.
  • Framian (fremian,

    v.l.) expedire,

      121, 9.
with prep.
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  • Heó framað (fremað,

    v.l.

    ) tó eallum drenceom,
      Lch. i. 110, 4.
to get good, derive benefit, profit, make progress
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  • Swá micelum ǽnig on gewrite háligum framaþ (

    proficit) ... swá micelum swá þú frámast (proficeris ),

      Scint. 219, 1-3.
  • Nówiht fromað se fiónd in him

    nihil proficiet inimicus in eo.

      Ps. Srt. 88, 23.
  • Fromedon

    proficiebant,

      Bd. 3, 19; Sch. 278, 10.
  • Wé ne mid segele ne mid róunesse ówiht fremian (fromian, fromgan, v.ll., proficere) mihton, 5, 1; Sch. 551, 15. II a. to prevail :-- Ne framige mon

    non praeualeat homo,

      Ps. Rdr. 9, 20.
  • Sé þe framian (

    proficere

    ) higð, þeáh þe hé stæpe fulfremednysse átilþ, symle swá þeáh hé fint ꝥ hé wexe,
      Scint. 100, 14.
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v. forþ-framian; fremman.
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