Be-feolan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Be-feolan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: bi-feolan ; Related words: be-felan. be-feolan

Definitions

1 be-feolan

p. -fæl, pl. -fǽlon ; pp. -folen, -feolen To commit, commend, deliver, grant; committere, commendare, tradere :-- Morðor under eorþan befeolan to commit murder under the earth, Exon. 90 b; Th. 340, 23; Gn. Ex. 115 : Cd. 202; Th. 251, 7 ; Dan. 560. Ðú him for inwite yfel befǽle propter dolos disposuisti eis mala, Ps. Th. 72, 14. Him wæs hálig gást befolen fæste the holy spirit was fully granted to him, Elen. Kmbl. 1870; El. 937 : 391; El. 196.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛖ-ᚠᛇᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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