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willian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
willian, p. ode.
to will :
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    Gode willigende Deo volente,
      Guthl. 20 ; Gdwin. 78, 20.
to desire,
with a genitive
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  • Mæg snottor guma his gǽste forð weges willian. Exon. Th. 104,

      15; Gú. 8.
  • Ne sceolde nan wis man willian (wilnian,

    v. l.

    ) séftes lífes,
      Bt. 40, 3; Fox 238, 13.
with infinitive
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  • Hwelc is mon se wile líf and willaþ gesián dægas góde?

    quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit videre dies bonos?

      Ps. Surt. 33, 13.
  • Gé wylladon (wilniaþ, v. l.) ús ða ðing gemǽnsuman

    ea nobis communicare desiderastis

    ,
      Bd. 1, 25; S. 487, 13.
with gerundial infin.
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  • Ongit hú unmihtige ða yfelan men beóþ, nú hí ne magon cuman þider ðider ða ungewittigan gesceafta williaþ (wilniaþ, v. l.) tó tó cumenne

    vide quanta vitiosorum hominum pateat infrmitas, qui ne ad hoc quidem pervenire queunt, ad quod eos naturalis ducit, ac pene compellit intentio

    ,
      Bt. 36, 5 ; Fox 180, 4.
with a clause
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  • Ic willio and wille ðæt hió sión getrymed,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 121, 23.
absolute
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  • Wer se ðe in bibodum his willaþ (cupiet), Ps. Surt. II, i.
Etymology
[He wyllede mest of alle þynge to hym enlyance, R. Glouc. 12, 18. Naȝt ne willieþ more þanne uor to by uorlore to þe wordle. Ayenb. 142, 15. Þu willest of briddes to knowe. Piers P. 12, 221. O. H. Ger. wil-lón desiderare.]
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v. ge-willian ; willung.
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