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búfan

  • preposition
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Grammar
búfan, búfon; prep. dat. [be-ufan]
Wright's OE grammar
§559;
Above; super; used in opposition to under
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  • God totwǽmde ða wæteru, ðe wǽron under ðære fæstnisse fram ðám ðe wǽron búfan ðære fæstnisse Deus divisit aquas, quæ erant sub firmamento ab his quæ erant super

    firmamentum.

      Gen. l, 7.
  • Búfan ðam máran wealle

    above the greater wall,

      Ors. 2, 4; Bos. 44, 28.
  • Twentig míla búfan Lundenbyrig

    twenty miles above London,

      Chr. 896; Th. 172, 25.
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v.  be-ufan.
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  • búfan, prep.