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a-fédan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-fédan, p. -fédde; pp. -féded, -féd
To feed, nourish, rear, bring up; nutrire, cibare, alere, pascere
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  • Heó bearn afédeþ

    she nourishes her child,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 746
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    • Sal. 372
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    • Ps. Th. 135, 26 : 83, 3
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  • Ðæt ðú hí afédde mid ðý Godes worde

    that thou didst feed them with the word of God,

    • Bd. 3, 5 ; S. 527, 34
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    • Ors. 1, 6; Bos. 29, 10
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    • Ps. Th. 94, 7 : 99, 3
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    • Andr. Kmbl, 1177
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    • An. 589
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  • He wæs aféded

    he was brought up,

    • 1367; An. 684
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  • He wæs aféded and gelǽred

    he was reared and taught;

    nutritus atque eruditus est.

    • Bd. 5, 20; S. 642, 16
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  • Wearþ Iafeðe geóguþ aféded

    to Japhet was youth brought up,

    • Cd. 78; Th. 96, 34
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    • Gen. 1604: 82
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    • Th. 102, 29
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    • Gen. 1707
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  • Ic eom aféd

    pascor,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 33 ; Som. 36, 44
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  • Ðá híg afédde wǽron

    quibus adultis,

    • Gen. 25, 27
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v.  a-fǽded.
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