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for-niman

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
for-niman, -nyman; p. -nam, -nom, pl. -námon, -nómon; pp. -numen; v. trans.
Wright's OE grammar
§649;
To take away, deform, plunder, destroy, ransack, waste, consume, devour; rapĕre, perdĕre, extermĭnāre, vastāre, consūmĕre, devŏrāre
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  • Ðú hí eáðe miht forniman

    thou mayest easily consume them,

    • Ps. Th. 72, 16: 118, 36.
  • Eów in beorge bǽl fornimeþ

    fire shall consume you upon the hill,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 1153
    • ;
    • El. 578.
  • Se ðe fornimþ þearfan on dýgelnysse

    qui devŏrat paupĕrem in abscondĭto,

    • Cant. Abac. Lamb. fol. 190 b, 14.
  • Hig fornymaþ hyra ansýna

    extermĭnant făcies suas,

    • Mt. Bos. 6, 16.
  • Hine wyrd fornam

    fate took him away,

    • Beo. Th. 2415
    • ;
    • B. 1205: 2877
    • ;
    • B. 1436: 4245; B. 2119.
  • Líg eall fornam

    the flame consumed all,

    • Cd. 119
    • ;
    • Th. 153, 34
    • ;
    • Gen. 2548: Andr. Kmbl. 1988
    • ;
    • An. 996: 3061
    • ;
    • An. 1533.
  • Swylt ealle fornom secga hlóþe

    death destroyed all the band of men,

    • Exon. 75 b
    • ;
    • Th. 283, 5
    • ;
    • Jul. 675: 59 b
    • ;
    • Th. 216, 15
    • ;
    • Ph. 268.
  • Se Brytta þeóde fornom

    qui gentem vastāvit Brittōnum,

    • Bd. 1, 34
    • ;
    • S. 499, 20.
  • Him írenne ecga fornámon

    iron edges had taken them away from him.

    • Beo. Th. 5649
    • ;
    • B. 2828.
  • Fórneáh hí fornámon me on lande

    paulo mĭnus consummāvērunt me in terra,

    • Ps. Spl. C. 118, 87.
  • Fornómon [MS. -noman]

    have consumed,

    • Exon. 78 a
    • ;
    • Th. 292, 14
    • ;
    • Wand. 99.
  • Wylt ðú we secgaþ ðæt fýr cume of heofone, and fornime hig

    vis dīcĭmus ut ignis descendat de cælo, et consūmat illos?

    • Lk. Bos. 9, 54.
  • Ðæs mannes wlite wyrþeþ eall fornumen mid onsígendre ylde

    the beauty of man becomes thoroughly destroyed by approaching old age,

    • Basil admn. 8
    • ;
    • Norm. 50, 20.
  • Swá swá sceáp from wulfum and wildeórum beóþ fornumene, swá ða earman ceasterwaran toslitene and fornumene wǽron fram heora feóndum

    sīcut agni a fĕris, ĭta misĕri cīves discerpuntur ab hostĭbus,

    • Bd. 1, 12
    • ;
    • S. 481, 26, 27: Homl. Th. ii. 416, 12.
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v.  for-nyman.
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