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on-fón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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on-fón, p. -féng; pp. -fangen (
with gen. dat. acc.).
to take
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to take what another appoints or
grants, to receive, have given
of material things
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of non-material things
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to take what another offers, receive favourably, accept
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to receive a person
for entertainment, assistance or protection; v. on-fónd
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in a special sense of receiving at the baptismal font, or at confirmation, to stand sponsor to a person:
— His (Godrum) se cyning onféng æt fulwihte,
    Chr. 878; Erl. 80, 22.
Æt ðam fulwihte hyre onféng sum Godes þeów, Shrn. 140, 22. Hine onféng æt fulluhtbæþe him tó godsuna Æþelwald, Bd. 3, 22; S. 553, 44. Ne hé náh mid rihte óðres mannes tó onfónne æt fulluhte ne æt bisceopes handa, L. C. E. 22; Th. i. 374, 2. Ic his hæfde ǽr onfongen æt biscopes handa, Ch.
    Th. 169, 27.
to undergo a rite, undertake a duty
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to conceive
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v. á-fón.
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v.  an-fón on-fónd.
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