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stefnan

  • noun [ masculine ]
  • verb [ weak ]
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stefnan, p. de.
Wright's OE grammar
§56;
to regulate, direct, fix, institute
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  • Hé stefnde Godes cyrican and Godes gesomnunga on ðære byrig eahta and twentig geára

    he had the direction of God's church and God's congregations in that town eight-and-twenty years,

      Shrn. 108, 6.
  • Ongann timbrian ða stówe ðæs mynstres ðe hé from ðam cyninge onféng and mid regollícum ðeódscipum stæfnde

    curavit locum monasterii, quem a rege acceperat, construere ac regularibus instituere disciplinis,

      Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 21 note.
to alternate
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  • Staefnendra

    alternantium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 99, 74.
  • Stefnendra,

      6, 49. v. ge-stefnan; stefn; m. a turn.
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  • stefnan, n.; v.