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on-fón

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on-fón, p. -féng; pp. -fangen (
with gen. dat. acc.).
to take
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  • Calic hǽlu ic onfóu,

      Ps. Surt. 115, 13.

  • Hé mycelne dǽl ðæs landes on anweald onféng,

      Bd. 1, 3; S. 475, 12.

  • Mód Bryttas onféngon

    they took courage,

      1, 16; S. 484, 19.

  • Se Ælmihtiga onféng ðæt hiw úre tyddran gecynde. Geþencean wé, gif óðer nýten wǽre tó háligienne, ðonne onfénge hé heora hiwe, ac hé wolde úrum hiwe onfón,

      Blickl. Homl. 29, 2-6.

  • Ðá nýddon hine hys yldran to ðæm ðæt hé sceolde woroldlícum wǽpnum onfón,

      213, 2.

  • Se hálga héht his heorþwerod wǽpna onfón. Cd. Th. 123,

      5; Gen. 2040.

  • Wífe onfón

    uxorem ducere,

      L. Ecg. C. 26; Th. ii. 152, 3.
to take what another appoints or
grants, to receive, have given
of material things
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  • Seó sául onféhþ hire líchoman,

      Blickl. Homl. 57, 16.

  • Adames cynn onféhþ flǽsce,

      Exon. Th. 63, 33; Cri. 1029.

  • Ðá onféngon hig syndrige penegas,

      Mt. Kmbl. 20, 10.
of non-material things
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  • Ic ne onfó gewitnesse fram menn,

      Jn. Skt. 5, 34.

  • Se ðe Godes word mid blisse onféhþ,

      Mt. Kmbl. 13, 20.

  • Gé onfóþ ðæm mægene Hálges Gástes,

      Blickl. Homl. 119, 11.

  • Hé onféng for worlde mycelne noman,

      43, 34.

  • Hí léfnysse onféngon,

      Bd. 1, 26; S. 488, 5.

  • Hé ðonne mid lǽwedum mannum onfó ðæs heardestan þeówdómes

    let the hardest service be assigned to him among laymen,

      Blickl. Homl. 49, 5.

  • Onfón synna forgifnesse,

      45, 7.
  • Méde onfón 83, 15.

  • Freódóm onfón,

      Ap. Th. 5, 19.

  • Hé ðam upplícan ríce gehyhte tó anfónne. Bd. 3,

      6; S 528, 5.
to take what another offers, receive favourably, accept
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  • Gif ðú on God gelýfan wilt, ic ðæs drences onfó,

      Homl.Th. i. 72, 17.

  • Se yfela déma onféhþ feó,

      Blickl. Homl. 61, 30.

  • Dryhten onféhþ eallum ðǽm gódum ðe ǽnig man gedéþ his ðæm néhstan of árfæstre heortan,

      37, 25.

  • Onfóh ðissum fulle,

      Beo. Th. 2342 ; B. 1169.
  • Ic bidde ðé ðæt ðú onfó ðissa láca. Gen. 33, 10.

  • Gif hí sibbe mid Godes mannum onfón ne woldan, ðæt hí wǽron unsibbe fram heora feóndum onfónde,

      Bd. 2, 2; S. 503, 30.
to receive a person
for entertainment, assistance or protection; v. on-fónd
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  • Swá hwylc swá ánne lytling onféhþ, se onféhþ mé,

      Mt. Kmbl. 18, 5.

  • Israhel onféhþ eallum his cnihtum

    suscepit Israhel,

      Blickl. Homl. 159, 20.

  • Martha onféng Crist on hire hús,

      73, 9.

  • Onfóh ús on ðæt scip,

      233, 7.

  • Onfóþ mínre méder on neorxna wonge,

      157, 32.

  • Onfóh ðú ðínum esne,

      Ps. Th. 118, 122.
  • Ðæt hé onfénge ðære eádigan Marian sáwle. Blickl. Homl. 155, 12.

  • His ðá ða onfón noldon, ðe hiene mon tó brohte,

      Ors. 5, 2; Swt. 218, 34.

  • Conon mid micle gefeán onfangen wæs,

      3, I; Swt. 98, 25.
in a special sense of receiving at the baptismal font, or at confirmation, to stand sponsor to a person:
— His (Godrum) se cyning onféng æt fulwihte,
    Chr. 878; Erl. 80, 22.
Æt ðam fulwihte hyre onféng sum Godes þeów, Shrn. 140, 22. Hine onféng æt fulluhtbæþe him tó godsuna Æþelwald, Bd. 3, 22; S. 553, 44. Ne hé náh mid rihte óðres mannes tó onfónne æt fulluhte ne æt bisceopes handa, L. C. E. 22; Th. i. 374, 2. Ic his hæfde ǽr onfongen æt biscopes handa, Ch.
    Th. 169, 27.
to undergo a rite, undertake a duty
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  • Hié fulwihte onféngon,

      Blickl. Homl. 203, 24.

  • Ðonne wile hé onfón rihtre ondetnesse,

      155, 1.
to conceive
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  • Gif heó bearn onféhþ

    si infantem conceperit,

      L. Ecg. 6, 19; Th. ii. 146, 29.

  • Seó unwæstmfæstnes fram him fleáh, and seó clǽnnes onféng,

      Blickl. Homl. 163, 19.

  • Ic wæs mid unrihtwísnesse onfangen

    in iniquitatibus conceptus sum,

      Ps. Th. 50, 6.

  • VII. to take to, to begin; incipere [cf. O. H. Ger. ana-fáhan:

    Ger.

    an-fangen] :-- Ðonne ðæt vers geendaþ on ðam naman ðe hit eft onféhþ, Anglia viii. 331, 24.

  • Ǽrest on cattes stán . . . eft on cates stán ðǽr hit (the boundary ) ǽr onféng.

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 313, 33.
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v. á-fón.
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v.  an-fón on-fónd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-fón.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/24545.

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