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á-cuman

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intrans. 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
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to bear, support trouble, &c.
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  • Hwá ácymð

    quis sustinebit,

    • Bl. Gl
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  • Ic ácom

    certavi (bonum certamen ),

    • An. Ox. 1349
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  • Strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom (mihte ácuman, v. l.),

    • Chr. 1040
      • ;
    • P. 160, 30
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  • Heó éhtnysse ácom,

    • Hml. S. 7, 3
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  • Hé ǽlc þing dó and ácume,

    • R. Ben. 113, 10
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  • 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
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  • Ácuman costnunge, ceáste, módleáste, graman,

    • Hml. Th. i. 4, 8
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    • Hml. S. 7, 243
      • :
    • 9, 125
      • :
    • Hml. A. 100, 266
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  • Úre ceaster is þearfende and ne mæg ðíne æðelborennesse ácuman,

    • Ap. Th. 9, 8
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  • Ðæt hé nánum men máre ne beóde ðonne hé ácuman mæge

    ut auditoris sui animum ultra vires non trahat,

    • Past. 459, 7
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  • 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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