For-niman

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-niman

Add: I. to seize and hold. (1) lit. of a criminal or captive :-- Ic eom mid racenteágum fornumen, Hml. Th. i. 462, 31. Ðis wíf fornumen is (deprehensa est) in dernegiligro, Jn. R. 8, 4. (2) of that which affects the body or mind, e.g. disease or fear :-- Se unclǽna gást fornóm (arripiebat) hine, Lk. L. 8, 29. Ádl þé fornime ꝥ þú ne beó hál ne gesund, Ap. Th. 21, 16. Læg heó swilce mid slǽpe fornumen, Hml. Th. ii. 32, 29. Seó módor mid murcnunge wæs fornumen, Hml. S. 2, 105. Mid fyrhte fornumene, 3, 138: Hml. Th. ii. 382, 3. Mið costungum fornumena tormentis comprehensos, Mt. L. 4, 24. (3) to comprehend :-- Ðióstro hiá ne fornómon (compraehenderunt), Jn. L. R. 1, 5. II. to seize and take away, carry off, do away with :-- Fornymþ aboleuerit, Germ. 388, 30. Fornoom intercepit, Wrt. Voc. ii. 111, 18. Sume þá wyrta wǽron mid fótum fortredene, sume hý wǽron mid ealle fornumene (direpta), Gr. D. 23, 30. Freóriht fornumene, Wlfst. 158, 15. II a. of death :-- Hine swá fǽrlíce deáð fornam ðǽt hé ungefullad forðférde, Bl. H. 217, 19. Þæt hié deáð fornóme, Ors. 4, 6; S. 174, 26. III. to take from a person, defraud :-- Ne fornime incer nóder óðer nolite fraudare invicem, Past. 399, 34. IV. to seize and devour, consume :-- Fornumen exesum vel commessum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 144, 77. (1) of living creatures :-- Hié (the hippopotamuses) þá men mid heora múðe sliton and hié ealle fornámon (assumpserunt), Nar. 11, 5. Hé (Herod) mid wyrmum fornumen gewát of lífe consumptus a vermibus exspiravit (Acts 12, 23), Hml. Th. ii. 382, 34. Fornumene exesa, consumpta, An. Ox. 50, 39. (2) of the destruction wrought by a person (or weapon) :-- Þín sweord fornymeð þíne þá wiþerweardan, Guth. 78, 2. Hé ðá óþre wered fornóm (nám, ) and fordílgode ceteras capias deleuit, Bd. 2, 2; Sch. 121, 19. Fornómun mec consummaverant me, Ps. Srt. 118, 87. (3) of natural agents, fire, disease, &c. :-- Ragu and meós fornymð (consumet) ealle wæstmas, Deut. 28, 42. Fýres gecynd is þæt hit fornimð swá hwæt swá gehende bið, Hml. Th. i. 320, 27. ꝥ fýr ne fornam ne án hǽr heora feaxes, Hml. S. 30, 464. Tó fornimene voraturos (ardores), An. Ox. 3979. God is fornymende fýr (ignis consumens), Hml. Th. i. 322, 9. Líchama mid hreófnisse fornumen (devoratum), Num. 12, 12. Úre hors wǽron swíðe mid þurste fornumene, Nar. 12, 14. (4) of the passage of time :-- On sáre and on geómrunga mín líf and míne geár syndon fornumene, Bl. H. 89, 15. [v. N. E. D. fornim. Goth. fra-niman: O. Sax. far-niman: O. H. Ger. fer-neman.] for-niman

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