Fylstan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fylstan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

fylstan
Add: (1) absolute:--Fylstende adstipulans, Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 39. (2) with dat. of person helped:--Drihten fylst him ǽfre, Hml. S. 11, 311. Se heáhengel him fylstende stód, Hml. Th. i. 506, 16. (3) to help a person (dat.) to () something, to help to the attainment of an end:--Hwílon þes middaneard teáh menn fram Gode . . . nú hé fylst ús tó Gode, Hml. S. 28, 172. Ꝥ ǽlc geréfa fylste óðrum tó úre ealra friðe, Ll. Th. i. 236, 27. Ic beóde ꝥ hý fylstan þám biscopum tó Godes gerihtum and tó mínum kynescipe and tó ealles folces þearfe, Cht. E. 230, 17: Wlfst. 268, 2: 295, 3: Ll. Th. ii. 312, 39. Ðám smeáwyrhtutn hé sceal tó tólan fylstan, Angl. ix. 263, 17. Fylstan him tó þæs cynges freóndscipe, Chr. 1046; P. 169, 1. (3 a) without dat. of person:--Gé fylstað on unriht wið sceatte and nellað tó rihte ye help unjustly for a bribe, and will not help (men) to get justice, Wlfst. 46, 27. Tó ciricbóte sceal eall folc fylstan, Ll. Th. i. 410, 12. Gif se landríca nelle tó steóre filstan, ii. 298, 19: i. 250, 6. Ne scylan hyg ǽnig unriht geþafian ac tó ǽlcan rihte geornlíce fylstan, ii. 310, 19. fylstan
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