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§345;
a calamity, disaster, evil, accident
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  • Fér

    casus,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 103, 35
    • .
  • Fær

    cassus,

    • 14, 2.

    Cassibus, calamitatibus vel

    férum,

    cassus, scelus, malum vel

    fær

    (cf. excidium, casus, ruina,

    • 145, 8
    • ),
    • 129, 27-30
    • .
  • Land, leóhtes leás and líges full, fýres fǽr micel

    a land without light and full of flame, a huge destroying fire,

    • Gen. 334
    • .
  • Ǽr him fǽr Godes aldre gesceóde

    ere the calamity sent by God destroyed them,

    • Dan. 592
    • .
  • Ne con hé yfles andgiet, ǽr hit hine on fealleð. Hé þonne onfindeþ, þonne se fǽr cymeð,

    • Dóm. 73
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  • Ic þæs fǽres á on wénum sæt, hwonne mé wráðra sum aldre beheówe

    I was ever expecting disaster, the stroke that should rob me of life,

    • Gen. 2699
    • .
  • Hé sóna deád wæs. Ðá ꝥ gesáwon ðá burgware, ðá wurdon hié swíðe forhte for ðǽm fære,

    • Bl. H. 199, 24
    • .
  • Preóstas magon bútan fére

    (without ill result?)

    þæs mónan ylde findan mid geráde,

    • Angl. viii. 332, 46
    • .
  • Hié þurh flódes fǽr

    (the destruction caused by the food)

    feorh áléton,

    • Andr. 1631
    • :
    • 1532
    • .
  • Hí flugon forhtigende, fǽr ongéton

    they fled in terror, knowing the calamity that had come upon them,

    • Exod. 452
    • .
  • Gif se ǽrra fǽr genam

    if the former got hurt,

    • Rä. 54, 12.
  • ¶attack of disease?:

    Lǽcedómas wiþ feferádle . . . wiþ þriddan dæges fǽre (cf. fefre, 134, 21) and feórþan dæges fǽre (cf. fefre, 134, 22) and wið ǽlces dæges fére (cf. fefere, 134, 74),

    • Lch. ii. 12, 26-28.
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