Á-cuman

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - á-cuman

According to the Old English Dictionary:

á-cuman
Add: I. intrans. To come:--Hé ne mihte búton ðám hrófe ácuman he could not get outside the house, Hml. Th. ii. 184, 12. II. trans. (1) to bear, bring:--Hí þurh deófles láre ðá menniscnesse tó deáðe ácóman, Wlfst. 22, 23. (2) to bear, support trouble, &c.:--Hwá ácymð quis sustinebit, Bl. Gl. Ic ácom certavi (bonum certamen), An. Ox. 1349. Strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom (mihte ácuman, ), Chr. 1040; P. 160, 30. Heó éhtnysse ácom, Hml. S. 7, 3. Hé ǽlc þing dó and ácume, R. Ben. 113, 10. Hé wítu ácóme, Hml. S. 23, 119. Ðæt hí ðone cyle ácóman, 11, 221. Ácuman (impetum) ferre, perferre, Kent. Gl. 1014: An. Ox. 7, 314. Ácuman costnunge, ceáste, módleáste, graman, Hml. Th. i. 4, 8: Hml. S. 7, 243: 9, 125: Hml. A. 100, 266. Úre ceaster is þearfende and ne mæg ðíne æðelborennesse ácuman, Ap. Th. 9, 8. Ðæt hé nánum men máre ne beóde ðonne hé ácuman mæge ut auditoris sui animum ultra vires non trahat, Past. 459, 7. Ne mæg ic ána ácuman (sustinere) eall ðis folc, Num. 11, 14. a-cuman

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