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bí-libban

  • verb [ weak ]
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bí-libban, p. -lifde; pp. -lifed, -lifd [bí 1. by, upon, libban to live]
Wright's OE grammar
§14;
To live by or upon, to be sustained or supported; vesci, sustentari
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  • Sciððium wearþ emleóf, ðæt hý gesáwon mannes blód agoten, swá him wæs ðara nýtena meolc, ðe by mǽst bílibbaþ

    it was as agreeable to the Scythians to see [lit. that they saw] man's blood shed, as it was [to see] the milk of their cattle, upon which they mostly live,

      Ors. 1, 2; Bos. 26, 31-33.
  • God ðás eorþan, ðe ealle cwice wihta bílibbaþ, ealle hire wæstmbǽro gelytlade

    God lessened this earth, all its fruitfulness, by which all living creatures are supported,

      2, 1; Bos. 38, 8.
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