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folgoþ

  • noun [ masculine ]
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folgoþ, folgaþ, es; m. [folgoþ = folgaþ; 3rd sing. pres. of folgian to follow.]
that which follows, — A train, retinue; id quod sĕquĭtur, cŏmĭtātus
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  • Á to his folgoþe and to his þénunge ða æðelestan men cómon

    the noblest men always came to his retinue and to his service,

    • Bd. 3, 14
    • ;
    • S. 540, 11.
  • On Swegenes eorles folgoþe

    among the train of earl Sweyn,

    • Chr. 1048
    • ;
    • Erl. 178, 16.
service of a follower, — A service, office, official dignity; cŏmĭtis servĭtus, ministĕrium, offĭcium, præpŏsĭtūra
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  • Se biscop amanige ða oferhýrnesse æt ðam geréfan ðe hit on his folgoþe

    let the bishop exact the penalty for contempt from the reeve in whose service it may be,

    • L. Ath. i. 26
    • ;
    • Th. i. 214, 3.
  • He folgode Iuliane, and he on ðam folgoþe ealle fúlnysse forbeáh, lybbende swá swá munuc

    he followed Julian, and in that service he avoided all foulness, living as a monk,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 500, 12.
  • On ðý eahtateóðan geáre ðe Óswold arcebisceop to folgoþe féng

    in the eighteenth year [from that] in which archbishop Oswald took office,

    • Cod. Dipl. 620; A. D. 978
    • ;
    • Kmbl. iii. 168, 23.
  • Beó se geréfa búton his folgoþe

    let the reeve be without [ = deprived of] his official dignity,

    • L. Ath. v. § 11
    • ;
    • Th. i. 240, 19.
  • Ualentinianus wæs Iulianuses cempena ealdorman: he him bebeád ðæt he forléte ðone his cristendóm oððe his folgoþ; ðá wæs him leófre ðæt he forléte his folgoþ ðonne ðone cristendóm

    Valentinian was chief of Julian's soldiers: he [Julian] commanded him to give up christianity or his office; then it was dearer to him to give up his office than christianity,

    • Ors. 6, 33
    • ;
    • Bos. 129, 16-19.
  • Habbaþ folgoþa cyst mid Cyninge

    they [the angels] have the choicest of services with their King,

    • Exon. 13b
    • ;
    • Th. 24, 26
    • ;
    • Cri. 390.
condition of life; condĭtio vltæ
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  • Óðer biþ unlǽde, óðer biþ eádig . . . hwæðres biþ hira folgoþ betra

    one is miserable, the other is fortunate . . . of which of them is the condition better?

    • Salm. Kmbl. 740
    • ;
    • Sal. 369.
Derived forms
under-folgoþ
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v.  folgaþ.
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