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  • Ǽlce dæg ǽne

    semel per diem,

      Jos. 6, 3.

  • Oft næs ǽne,

      Wlfst. 243, 2: El. 1253.

  • Oftor ðonne ǽne,

      Ll. Th. ii. 334, 1.

  • Ǽne ðrowade Críst ðurh hine sylfne, ac dæghwomlíce bið his þrowung geedníwod þurh gerýnu ðæs húsles,

      Hml. Th. ii. 276, 10.

  • Ná ǽne ac ǽfre,

      Hml. S. 1, 141.
  • I a. as multiplier :---
with ordinal force,
a first time
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  • Ðá wæs se deófol ǽne oferswíðed. . . . Ðá wæs se deófol óðere síðe oferswíðed,

      Hml. Th. i. 168, 35-170, 31.
  • Hí hine swungon ǽne and óðre síðe, ii. 302, 9.
  • Ǽne hé sende and eft, i. 522, 1.
marking indefinite time,
once, at any time
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  • Hweðer ðá ðe ðǽr beóð ǽne (

    semel

    ) besæncte, sculon hí ðǽr beón aa byrnende,
      Gr. D. 334, 4: 108, 24.

  • Sé ðe ǽne ðǽron befylð, ne wyrð hé nǽfre álýsed,

      Hml. Th. ii. 352, 29: Hml. S. 23, 375.

  • Gif ðú ǽne behátest Gode hé wyle ðonne habban ðæt ðú him behéte,

      Hex. 50, 4.
of past time,
once, at some former time
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  • Ðá ðe ǽne mid sygefæstum deáde middangeard oferswíððe,

      Hml. Th. i. 84, 31.

  • Þurh ðé Freá ǽne ón ðás eorðan út síðade,

      Cri. 329.
  • Ic ðé ǽne ábealh, ðá wit Adam eaples þigdon, Sat. 410 (substitute this for translation in Dict.).
at once
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  • Ǽne ic fare tó ðé and ádílgige ðé

    semel ascendam in medio tui et delebo te,

      Ex. 33, 5.

  • Ðanne samod becumað eall engla werod . . . ǽne bið geban micel,

      Dóm. L. 128.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ǽne.” 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/37855.

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