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of movement,
marking relative position
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  • Ꝥ ǽrre folc and ꝥ æfterre . . . wé synt þe þǽr æfter fylgeaþ,

      Bl. H. 81, 33.

  • Seó menigo þe þǽr beforan férde and seó þe þǽr æfter fylgde,

      71, 10.
marking accompaniment
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  • Him fylgede mycel manigo þæs folces,

      Bl. H. 247, 36.

  • Woendun ꝥ hé wére hiǽ mið fylgende

    existimantes illum esse in comitatu,

      Lk. R. L. 2, 44.
to follow with intent to reach,
to pursue (lit. or fig.)
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  • Wé him fleóndum fylgeaþ,

      Bl. H. 115, 18.

  • Ic gongo and gé fylgas ł soecas mec

    ego uado et queritis me,

      Jn. R. L. 8, 21.

  • Hwílon stód ꝥ man sceolde þrywa týman þǽr hit ǽrest befangen wǽre, and syþþan fylgean teáme swá hwǽr swá man tó cende,

      Ll. Th. i. 288, 30.
to follow a track,
proceed along a line marked out (lit. or fig.)
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  • Þonne fylge wé Drihtnes swæþe,

      Bl. H. 75, 13.

  • Ic móste þínum swaðum fyligan,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 710.
of action or condition.
with a personal subject.
to follow another.
as his disciple
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  • Sé þe fylgeþ mé, ne gǽþ hé on þeóstro,

      Bl. H. 103, 31.

  • Cum and filig mé,

      Hml. Th. ii. 400, 14.

  • Fylg mec ł soec mec

    sequere me,

      Lk. L. 5, 27.
as a dependant, retainer
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  • 'Gif þú feallest tó mé and mé weorþast' . . . 'Ic þé ne fylge,' Bl. H. 31, 14.

  • Filiendne adherentem, i. sequentem, An. Ox. 3362. ¶

    to follow

    a person's banner :-- Wé sceolan weorðian ꝥ hálige sigetácen Crístes róde and æfter fylgeon,
      Bl. H. 97, 13.
to follow an example, teaching, &c. Cf. fylgend-lic
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  • Hié Drihtnes bysenum ne fylgeað, ac hié fylgaþ deófles lárum,

      Bl. H. 25, 10.

  • Gif þú filian wilt lárum mínum,

      Dóm. L. 32, 67.

  • Fylgean,

      Bl. H. 219, 36.

  • Ðára apostola gilá? wé ongéton tó fylgenne

    apostolorum magisterium cognovimus exequendum,

      Rtl. 30, 31.
to follow a profession,
devote one's self to, diligently attend to. Cf. fylgestre
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  • Sé ðe felð

    qui sectatur (avaritiam ),

      Kent. Gl. 536: 679.

  • Þá men þe þyssum uncystum fylgað,

      Bl. H. 25, 9.

  • Þá þe þyssum sange fylgeaþ,

      45, 36.

  • Anna gebedum fyligde (

    obsecrationibus seruiens nocte ac die,

      Lk. 2, 37), Ll. Th. ii. 324, 8.

  • Hé campdóme fyligde

    he followed the profession of arms,

      Hml. S. 31, 17.

  • Beó þú eádmód . . . and gebedum filige,

      Dóm. L. 28, 6.

  • Ꝥ wé ue fylgeon unwitweorcum,

      Bl. H. 111, 2.

  • Fylian heora bócum and gebedum georne,

      Ll. Th. ii. 322, 8.
to attend to a person medically
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  • Drince þá hwíle þá hé þurfe; and þǽr sió ádl gesitte, fylge him simle mid tigehorne oþ ꝥ hál sié,

      Lch. ii. 120, 16: 118, 16.
to accommodate one's self to the will of another, yield to a thing; obsequi
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  • Se cleweþa bið suíðe rów, and ðeáhhwæðere gif him mon tó longe fylgð (

    lets it have its way

    ), hé wundað,
      Past. 71, 20.
to try to gain
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  • Hé in þissere byrig fylgeþ þám wraðum þises hwílendlican lífes mid lǽcecræfte

    ipse in hac urbe per medicinae artem temporalis vitae stipendia sectatur,

      Gr. D. 344, 10.

  • Soec sibbe and fylg ðá,

      Ps. Srt. 33, 15.
the subject a thing.
marking association, accompaniment
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  • Ne felhð

    non sequetur (eum sanitas ),

      Kent. Gl. 1055.

  • Tantalus on þisse worulde ungemetlíce gífre wæs and him þár (

    in Hades) ꝥ ilce yfel fyligde (filgde, v. l. ),

      Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, 1.

  • Ne forléton hí nó ꝥ gecyndelice gód; ac simle him wolde ꝥ fylgean,

      27, 3; F. 100, 7.
marking pursuit, attack
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  • Felð

    persequitur (malum peccatores ),

      Kent. Gl. 462.
of time.
to follow, do what has already been done by another
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  • Hí ealle becumað tó ðám écan lífe, and þú sylf siððan him fyligst tó Godes ríce,

      Hml. S. 6, 334.
to happen or
come at a later time
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  • Þám tácnum sóna fyligde mycel hunger,

      Chr. 293; P. 57, 1.

  • Filiendre æftergencgnesse

    successurae posteritati,

      An. Ox. 2694.
  • v. full-, of-, ofer-fylgan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “fylgean.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/46680.

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