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Old English Dictionary Entry

ā-fillan

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1 ā-fillan

to cause to fall down or of (I. lit. :-- Þā āfylde sum cnapa ꝥ fæt a boy knocked the vessel down, Hml. S. 31, 1127. Gegrīpan ꝥ palmtwig and tō eorþan āfyllan (to cast it to the earth), Bl. H. 151, 16. II. metaph. to cause to cease, put an end to :-- Hē āfylleþ þā inwitfullan word of his tungan he puts away deceitful words from his tongue, Bl. H. 55, 16. Āfyl praecipita, Ps. Spl. 54, 9. Āfæl, Wrt. Voc. ii. 118, 7. Getriówie hē hine be þām wīte and mid þȳ ꝥ wīte āfelle (-fylle, ) make the fine not recoverable, Ll. Th. i. 84, 16. Hæfd hē ꝥ wīte āfylled mid þȳ āde, 136, 3. Āfyldum effeta (voluntate, Ald. 66, 21), Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 58. in Dict. a-fillan
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Runic Inscription

ᚪ-ᚠᛁᛚᛚᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Bl.
Blickling Homilies
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Ll.
Laws of the Anglo-Saxons
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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