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a-fíndan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
a-fíndan, l. á-findan ; p. -fand, -funde; pl. -fundon; pp. -funden,
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to find out as the result of search, enquiry, trial
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  • Ic áfunde Dauid æfter mínre heortan,

      Hml. S. 18, 30.

  • Man áfunde mid him swutele tácnu,

      Hml. A. 95, 116.

  • Ásændon hí inn ǽnne his búrðéna, and sé áfunde his hláford licgan heáfodleásne,

      113, 364.

  • Helena ðá róde áfunde,

      H. R. 99, 8.

  • Hé hyne áxode hwæt hé áfunde be þám Hǽlende,

      St. A. 44, 11.

  • Hé ne mihte on his móde áfindan (

    he could not find it in his heart

    ) þæt hé þone nacodan ne gefréfrode,
      Hml. Th. ii. 500, 25.

  • Gif ǽnig mǽden mihte beón áfunden,

      Hml. A. 94, 72.

  • Ðǽra sceápa hláford com hám áfundenum sceápe,

      Hml. Th. i. 340, 5.
where knowledge comes without search, etc.,
to become or
be made aware of something
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  • Gif man áfindeð his ǽhte, syððan hé hit gebohte hæfeð, unhál

    if a person's cattle turns out, after he has bought it, to be unsound

    ,
      Ll. Th. i. 180, 20.

  • Mága gerecednysse hé áfunde

    affinium relatione comperit

    ,
      An. Ox. 3143.

  • Eóde heó in tó hire berne; þá áfunde heó ꝥ hire sunu hæfde þearfum gedǽled þone hwǽte,

      Gr. D. 68, 17.

  • Gif man áfinde ꝥ heora ǽnig on wóhre gewitnesse wǽre,

      Ll. Th. i. 204, 23.

  • Ǽr hine þá men áfundan

    before the men became aware of him

    ,
      Chr. 755 P. 49, 1.

  • Hé wæs deófol áfunden

    he turned out to be a devil

    ,
      Hml. S. 18, 48.
to find out, learn the nature of something,
experience
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  • Swipa áfinden

    mastigias experiamur

    ,
      An. Ox. 5369.
  • Ne ðearf ic ðésecgan hú hefig sorg men beoþ seó gémen his bearna, for ðám ðú hit hafast áfunden be þé selfum. Bt. 31, i; F. 112, 19.
to find, discover, meet with a person,
lit.
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  • Hí forléton hine tó ánum treówe gebun-denne. Hé wearð áfunden fram ðám folce þǽr,

      Hml. A. 107, 158.
fig.
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  • Hí blissodon ꝥ hí swilcne foresprecan him áfunden hæfdon,

      101. 317.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ar-findan experiri, deprehendere. ]
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v. áfunden; on-findan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “a-fíndan.” 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/38198.

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