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folgoþ

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with the idea of service,
to the king or state, service, office
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  • Tó his folgaþe and tó his þénunge þá æþelestan cóman

    ad eius (Oswine) ministerium uiri nobilissimi concurrerent,

    • Bd. 3, 14
    • ;
    • Sch. 256, 14
    • .
  • (the centurion)

    forlét his folgos,

    • Hml. S. 37, 192.
the district in which office is held:
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  • Se biscop ámanige þá oferhýrnesse æt þám geréfan þe hit on his folgoðe sý,

    • Ll. Th. i. 214, 3
    • .
  • Ǽnne castel on Herefordscíre on Swegenes eorles folgode,

    • Chr. 1048
    • ;
    • P. 174, l
    • .
  • Him (Godwine) wæs láð tó ámyrrene his ágenne folgað

    (comitatum suum),

    • P. 175, - 13
    • .
to a lord
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  • Sélre him

    (the reeve)

    is ǽfre of folgoðe ðonne on, gyf hine magan wyldan ðá ðe hé scolde wealdan,

    • Angl. ix. 260, 30
    • .
with the idea of independent rule,
authority, official dignity
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  • Ðá ofersettan mon sceal suá manian ðæt se hiera folgoð hí ne oðhebbe

    (ne locus superior istos extollat),

    • Past. 189. 17
    • .
  • Monige wilniað folgoðes and ealdordómes

    praedicaiionis officium nonnuli appetunt,

    • Past. 47, 23
    • .
  • On ðý seofoðan geáre ðæs ðe óswald bisceop tó folgaðe féng,

    • C. D. iii. 5, 17
    • .
  • Folgoðe,

    • 21, 28
    • .
  • Hú hé on ðone folgoð becume

    ad culmen regiminis qualiter venial,

    • Past. 23, 20
    • .
  • Ðá ðe . . . him mon swelcne folgað beódeð and hié him wiðsacað

    qui culmen regiminum si vocati suscipere renuunt,

    • 41, 20
    • .
  • Ðonne hié underfóð ðone folgoð

    cum regiminum loca percipiunt,

    • 289, 5
    • .
the district over which authority is exercised
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  • Heom gebirad tó bestandenne þá men þe hírað intó heora mynstre, and ne sceal nán faran on oðres folgoð,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 386, 5
    • .
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v. bisceop-, práfost-, sundor-, weorold-folgoþ.
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