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ge-feolan

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Grammar
ge-feolan, l. ge-feólan; p. -fealh, pl. fulgon.
Take here passage given under ge-felgan, and add:
to press into,
to make ones way into a place,
get and remain in
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  • Wæs þǽr neáh Apollines templ; þá gefealh hé þǽr in and þǽr þá niht gewunode

    juxta Apollinis templum fuit, ibique se ad manendum contulit,

      Gr. D. 189, 1.
  • Ðá warð his leóhtbora áfyrht swýðe, and gefeall him in ánan heale and slǽp

    his light-bearer became very frightened, and got in a corner and went to sleep,

      Vis. Lfc. 36.
to enter the mind
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  • Hú se ealda feónd on symbel geféleð úrum gebohtum mid his searwum

    antiquus hostis quam insidiis nostris cogitationibus insistat,

      Gr. D. 222, 6.
to stick to.
to continue instant in, pursue unremittingly
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  • Swá mycele má hé gefealh mid geornnysse þám gebedum

    tanto annisu precibus incubuit,

      Gr. D. 74, 17: 125, 29: 247, 26.
  • Hé gefealh his wæcce

    instans vigiliis,

      170, 30.
  • Hégefealh singallíce his þegnungum and hýrnessum

    ejus obsequiis sedule atque incessanter adhaerebat,

      299, 29.
to adhere to a person, an opinion
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  • Þá þe Gode gefeólað mid éstfullum móde

    qui devota mente Deo adhaerent,

      Gr. D. 161, 17.
  • For þon þe ic gefealh and gewunode in Laurenties worde and wæs wið Simmache

    guia in parte Laurentii contra Symmachum sensi,

      330, 8.
Etymology
[Goth, ga-filhan to hide: O.H.Ger. gi-felhan.]
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