Ymb

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ymb

Add :, emban. I. with acc. (1) temporal. (a) at, (α) alone. I 2 a. (β) with útean :-- Ymb midde niht útan nocte media, Gr. D. 253, 17 : 257, 23 : 272, 14. (b) after :-- Ymb twá niht (æfter twám dagum, v. l.) post biduum, Gr. D. 158, 5. Ymbe .v. winter post .v. annos, Ll. Th. ii. 152, 6. (bα) where the point from which time is measured is in the genitive. Cf. Dict. I 2 b 1. :-- Ymb fíftig wintra and hundteóntig Angelcynnes hidercymes on Breotone aduentus Anglorum in Brittaniam anno circiter CL., Bd. 1, 23; Sch. 48, 6. (2) in figurative senses. (a) cf. Dict. I 3 a. :-- Embe hand, hrædlíce iam iam, cito, Germ. 388, 73. (b) cf. Dict. I 3 b. :-- Nú wylle ic bysne ætíwan ymbe þá þing þe wé nú handledon, Angl. viii. 304, 24. (c) cf. Dict. I 3 d. :-- Nú wé sculon fón ymb þæt Punica gewin, Ors. 4, 4; S. 164, 8. Þá þíng þe wé fæste ymbe wǽron, Angl. viii. 304, 24. Swincð se yrðlincg embe úrne bigleofan, Hml. S. 25, 819. Wást þú hú ic gewand ymbe Creósos þearfe?, Bt. 7, 3; F. 22, 10. II. with dat. (1) temporal. (a) at. Cf. Dict. I 2 a. :-- Swá swá seó sunne déð ymbe þǽre ðriddan tíde, Hml. Th. ii. 76, 16. (b) after. Cf. Dict. I 2 b. :-- Ymbe þreóra tída fæce, Hml. Th. ii. 162, 27. (2) in figurative senses. (a) cf. Dict. I 3 b. :-- Ðá hálgan láreówas hwílon sprecað be ðám Fæder and his Sunu, hwílon embe ðǽre Hálgan Ðrynnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 56, 27. Hé hí gewissode ymbe ðæs mynstres gebytlungum, 172, 16 : 262, 21. ¶ where both dat. and acc. occur :-- Þises godspelles traht sprecð ymbe ðás wæterfatu and heora getácnungum, 70, 13. (b) cf. Dict. I 3 c. :-- Ne beó ðú carful ymbe woruldlicum gestreónum, Hml. Th. ii. 344, 2. Þá þe ymbe óðra manna bigleofan hogiað, 444, 1. (c) cf. Dict. I 3 d. :-- Heó wæs bysig ymbe ánum ðinge, Hml. Th. ii. 440, 33. Hé férde swá swá his gewuna wæs ymbe geleáffulre bodunge (for the purpose of preaching the faith. Cf. Quadam die cum praedicaturus juxta consuetudinem suam populis de monasterio exiret, Vit. Cuth. 12), 138, 29. III. adverbial :-- Hé swá hwider ymb swá hé beden wæs férde ubicumque rogabatur diuertens, Bd. 4, 12; Sch. 412, 1. v. þǽr-ymbe. ymb

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