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bi-fón

  • verb [ strongcontracted ]
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bi-fón, p. -féng, pl. -féngon; pp. -fangen, -fongen.
to comprehend, grasp, seize, take hold of, attach, catch, ensnare; comprehendere, apprehendere, reprehendere, deprehendere, capere
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  • Folm mec mæg bifón

    the hand may grasp me,

      Exon. 111 a; Th. 425, 6; Rä. 41, 52.
to surround, encompass, encircle, envelop, contain, invest, clothe, case, receive, conceive; circumdare, amplecti, capere, cingere, tegere, operire, accipere, concipere
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  • Flǽsce bifongen

    surrounded with flesh,

    Exon 98 a;
      Th. 368, 33; Seel. 34.
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v. be-fón.
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v.  be-fón.
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