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ufan
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ufan
. II.add: (l) literal :-- Sleá man of þá hand þe hé þ̵ fúl mid worhte, and sette ufan on (uppon, v.l.) þá mynetsmiððan. Ll. Th. i. 206, 21. (2) figurative :-- Þ hine man forgulde mid healfan punde; gif wé þonne gyld árǽrdon, þ̵ him man ýhte ufon on þ̵ be his wlites weorðe, Ll. Th. i. 234, 6. v. ofer-, wiþ-ufan.
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ufan
; adv. I. from above, down, (1) where motion is expressed or implied :-- God him sende ufan greáte hagolstánas Dominus misit super eos lapides magnos de coelo, Jos. 10, 11: Blickl. Homl. 51, 12. Him feóll ufan flǽsc pluit super eos carnes, Ps. Th. 77, 27. Seó lyft týhð ðone wǽtan tó hyre neoðan and ða hǽtan ufon, Lchdm. iii. 280, 3. Ic eom engel Godes ufan síþende, Exon. Th. 258, 7; Jul. 261. Hine ufan neósade Meotud, 159, 24; Gú. 931: Beo. Th. 3005; B. 1500. Se ðe ufa cuom qui desursum uenit, Jn. Skt. 3, 31.
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ufan
, (-en(n)e); adv. I. from above, down, (1) where motion is expressed or implied :-- Hié sǽdon ðæt hit ufane of ðære lyfte cóme, Ors. 3, 6; Swt. 108, 30. Hé déð ðæt fýr cymð ufene, Wulfst. 97, 21. Steorran hreósaþ ufene of heofonum, 93, 8. (2) where an action is directed from a higher to a lower point :-- Ufone sceal ðæt heáfod gíman ðæt ða fét ne áslíden caput debet ex alto providere, ne pedes torpeant, Past. 18; Swt. 131, 25. Clypigende ufenne, Homl. Skt. i. 9, 25. I a. from above, from heaven :-- Ic eom ufane ego de supernis sum, Jn.
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