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ā-flīman

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1 ā-flīman

Add: I. where there is conflict, to put to flight, (l) of actual fighting :-- Hē hyg āflīmde and ofslōh mā þonne .xxx. gōdra degna. Chr. 1052 ; P. 179, 11. Wē mid strǣlum hié scotodon and hié sōna onweg āflȳmdon, Nar. 32, 18. Hȳ dǣr āflȳmede wurdon, Chr. 1001; P. 132, 22. (2) to drive away what is unpleasant or hurtful :-- Āflȳman ealle þā þeóstru þǣre nihte, Gr. D. 171, 2. Diúl sē de āflēmed is (fugitivus est) from galle fisces derh done hēhengel, Rtl. 146, 37. II. of expulsion, banishment, (1) lit. :-- Hié hine (Pope Leo) of his setle āfliémdon, Chr. 797; P. 56, 11. Geūtod, āflȳmed exiliata. An. Ox. 4849. Hine (Egbert) hæfde Offa āfliémed .iii. geár of Angelcynnes lande on Fronclond, Chr. 836; P. 62, 22. Weard āflēmed ūt (man ūtlagode, MS. D.) Ōsgot Clapa, 1044; P. 165, 15. (2) fig. :-- Āflȳman eliminace (verborum tonitrua), An. Ox. 1963. Ūt āflȳmed explosa (vesania), 5012. Ūt āflēdum gālfreólsum abdicatis (i. ex-pulsis) lupercalibus, 4860. in a-fliman
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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Chr.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Gr.
Ælfric's Grammar
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