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á-cuman

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To come
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  • Hé ne mihte búton ðám hrófe ácuman

    he could not get outside the house,

      Hml. Th. ii. 184, 12.
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to bear, bring
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  • Hí þurh deófles láre ðá menniscnesse tó deáðe ácóman,

      Wlfst. 22, 23.
to bear, support trouble, &c.
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  • Hwá ácymð

    quis sustinebit, Bl. Gl. Ic ácom certavi (bonum certamen ),

      An. Ox. 1349.

  • Strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom (mihte ácuman,

    v. l.

    ),
      Chr. 1040; P. 160, 30.

  • Heó éhtnysse ácom,

      Hml. S. 7, 3.

  • Hé ǽlc þing dó and ácume,

      R. Ben. 113, 10.

  • Hé wítu ácóme,

      Hml. S. 23, 119.

  • Ðæt hí ðone cyle ácóman,

      11, 221.

  • Ácuman

    (impetum) ferre, perferre,

      Kent. Gl. 1014: An. Ox. 7, 314.

  • Ácuman costnunge, ceáste, módleáste, graman,

      Hml. Th. i. 4, 8: Hml. S. 7, 243: 9, 125: Hml. A. 100, 266.

  • Úre ceaster is þearfende and ne mæg ðíne æðelborennesse ácuman,

      Ap. Th. 9, 8.

  • Ðæt hé nánum men máre ne beóde ðonne hé ácuman mæge

    ut auditoris sui animum ultra vires non trahat,

      Past. 459, 7.

  • Ne mæg ic ána ácuman (

    sustinere

    ) eall ðis folc,
      Num. 11, 14.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-cuman.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/37459.

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