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fold-búend

  • noun [ masculine ]
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fold-búend, -búende; noun from pres. part.
Earth-dwellers, earth's inhabitants, inhabitants of a land or country; terrĭcŏlæ
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  • Ðanan feorhnere findaþ fold-búend

    thence earth's inhabitants find nourishment,

    • Ps. Th. 64, 10: Beo. Th. 4541
    • ;
    • B. 2274.
  • Ðone Grendel nemdon foldbúende

    whom earth's inhabitants named Grendel,

    • Beo. Th. 2714
    • ;
    • B. 1355: Elen. Kmbl. 2026
    • ;
    • El. 1014: Exon. 25a
    • ;
    • Th. 72, 25
    • ;
    • Cri. 1178: 121a
    • ;
    • Th. 465, 9
    • ;
    • Hö. 101.
  • Hý ongytan mihton ðæt wæs fóremǽrost foldbúendum receda

    they might perceive what was the grandest of houses to earth's inhabitants,

    • Beo. Th. 624
    • ;
    • B. 309: Bt. Met. Fox 8, 8
    • ;
    • Met. 8, 4: Exon. 53a
    • ;
    • Th. 186, 24
    • ;
    • Az. 24.
  • Deáþ rícsade ofer foldbúend

    death ruled over earth's inhabitants,

    • Exon. 45b
    • ;
    • Th. 154, 17
    • ;
    • Gú. 844.
  • Mid fére fold-búende se micla dæg meahtan Dryhtnes bihlǽmeþ

    the great day of the mighty Lord shall strike earth's inhabitants with fear,

    • Exon. 20b
    • ;
    • Th. 54, 14
    • ;
    • Cri. 868.
  • Ðæt eorþwaran ealle hæfden foldbúende fruman gelícne

    that all mortals, inhabitants of the earth, had a like beginning.

    • Bt. Met. Fox 17, 3
    • ;
    • Met. 17, 2.
  • Ðone fugel hátaþ foldbúende Filistina frnman uasa mortis

    the inhabitants of the land, the princes of the Philistines, call the bird vāsa mortis,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 560
    • ;
    • Sal. 279.
  • Ic hæbbe me on hrycge ðæt ǽr hádas wreáh foldbúendra

    I have on my back what ere covered the persons of dwellers on earth,

    • Exon. 101a
    • ;
    • Th. 381, 18
    • ;
    • Rä. 2, 13: 32b
    • ;
    • Th. 106, 2
    • ;
    • Gú. 35.
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