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evenly.
uniformly, regularly. Cf. efen,
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  • Mé is metegung on módsefan hú ic ǽ þíne efnast healde

    lex tua meditatio mea est,

      Ps. Th. 118, 77.
with equanimity. v. efen,
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  • Hé hit emne and geðyldelíce (

    aequanimiter

    ) forbær,
      Past. 227, 22.
equally, justly, fairly. v. efen,
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  • Dém þú swíþe emne,

      Ll. Th. i. 54, 11.
  • Hié bǽdon þæt hé hié ymb þæt ríce gesémde, and on þǽre gewitnesse wǽre þæt hit emne gedǽled wǽre,

      Ors. 3, 7; S. 114, 18.
equally. v. efen,
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  • Emne unwemme,

      Ll. Th. i. 166, 21.
as intensive or emphatic particle.
exactly, just.
with a numeral
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  • Efne nigon hund wintra and lxxi. on þýs geáre,

      Bl. H. 119, 2: 129, 16.
of manner, degree
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  • Mid wíne and hunige gemenged gelíce efne (

    just alike

    ),
      Lch. i. 363, 14.
  • ¶ followed by swá, swelce :-- Cirican mund*-*byrd is efne swá cynges, Ll. Th. i. 330, 21.
  • Emne suelce (

    just at if;

    quasi) hié him on ðæt nebb spǽten,
      Past. 45, 3.
  • Efne swylce

    ac si,

      Gr. D. 216, 18: 220, 16.
  • Efne swá seó byrþen siteþ . . . swá sæt seó byrþen,

      Bl. H. 75, 7: 221, 12.
  • Hié cwǽdon . . . Efne swá swá hié openlíce cwǽdon . . .,

      81, 19.
  • Efne þǽm gelícost swylce . . .,

      221, 14.
of time,
just now, directly
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  • Wyrcað dǽdbóte, for ðan þe heofonan ríce efne geneálǽchð,

      Hml. S. 16, 133.
  • Uton ús gesettan efne nú (

    even now, at once

    ) heretogan,
      Num. 14, 4.
just, only, no other than
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  • Wundurlic wíse and efne heofonlic

    mira res et non nisi caelitus facta,

      Bd. 4, 11; Sch. 408, 11.
  • Efne þá án þá þe tó ǽfæstnesse belumpon

    ea tantummodo quae ad religionetn pertinent,

      4, 24; Sch. 482, 7.
  • Ne gedafenað ꝥ hé elles dó, bútan swá hé efne on axan and on duste licge,

      Bl. H. 227, 14.
  • Efne ꝥ gé mé sylfum dóð,

      215, 26.
  • Him ne bið nǽfre nán rest seald búton emne þý dæge,

      Ll. Th. ii. 396, 37.
even
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  • Hit áwriten is be Salamonne hú hé áfióll emne oð ðæt hé dióflum ongan gieldan

    Salomon usque ad idololatriam cecidisse describitur,

      Past. 393, 14.
  • Simle ic beó gemyndig efne (

    etiam

    ) betweoh tweóndan frecnisse úra gefeohta,
      Nar. 1, 9.
  • Ꝥ hé efne munuclífe gyta swíþor lifde þonne lǽwedes mannes,

      Bl. H. 213, 10.
  • Manige men . . . ge efne eác manige hǽþene men,

      129, 24.
lo, indeed, now
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  • Efne

    ecce,

      An. Ox. 40, 2, 36.
  • Efene

    en,

      9, 16.
  • Efne ðá ðá se apostol sprecende wæs,

      Hml. Th. i. 66, 15: Hml. S. 15, 60: 22, 75.
  • Efne þú eart gelǽred,

      22, 16, 43.
  • Ðú góda cyngc, efne þes man þe þú swá wel wið gedést, hé is æfestful for ðínum góde,

      Ap. Th. 14, 23.
  • Heó hæfde efne and heóld þæs líchaman lustes forhæfdnesse, ac hwæðre . . .

    carnis quidem continentiam habuit, sed . . .,

      Gr. D. 340, 15.
  • Efne . . ., ac . . .,

      Hml. S. 22, 107.
  • Mín se leófesta láreów, and efne tó mínre méder . . . se leófesta freónd

    my dearest teacher, and indeed, next to my mother, my dearest friend,

      Nar. 1, 11: Bl. H. 217, 18.
  • Ond efne swíðe mín weorod wæs gewelgod et sane miles locupletatus est, Nar. 7, 5. (4 a) with nú :-- Efne nú

    en,

      Kent. Gl. 9.
  • Efene nú ic eom geara tó eówere neóde

    ecce adsum,

      R. Ben. 3, 2.
  • Efne nú is ðeós gifu eów ætbróden,

      Hml. Th. i. 64, 23.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ebano aeque, ordinate, aequanimiter, aequaliter, pariter.]
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