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for-ealdian

  • verb [ weak ]
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of living material, animal or vegetable,
to grow weak with age
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  • Æpla, græs, and wyrtan foraldiað and forsériað ... Ge furþum manna líchaman forealdiað ... hý árísað on dómes dæge swá þæt néfre syððan þá líchaman ne geendiað ne ne forealdiað,

    • Solil. H. 10, 3-12
    • .
  • Ic eom forealdod

    inveteravi,

    • Ps. Th. 6, 6.
  • Þá þá Dúnstán iung man wæs, and se swurdbora wæs forealdod man,

    • Hml. S. 32, 6
    • .
  • Ic him sǽde ꝥ hé forealdod wǽre, and tó þæs eald wǽre ꝥ hé ne mihte elcor gewearmigan búton æt fýre,

    • Nar. 18, 14
    • .
  • Swá forealdod mon

    decrepitus senex,

    • 21.
  • Foreald[od]

    decrepita,

    • An. Ox. 2109.
  • On fótum forealdudes

    (ueterani),

    • Scint. 223, 13
    • .
  • Mec þás forealdodan elreordegan bysmergeað

    illudi me a barbaris senibus existimavi,

    • Nar. 25, 25
    • .
  • Samuhel and Danihel cildgeonge forealdedum mæssepreóstum démdon

    Samuel et Daniel pueri presbiteros judicaverunt,

    • R. Ben. 114, 8
    • .
of dead matter,
to get worn out with long use, to decay through being kept too long
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  • Warnige hé ꝥ ꝥ húsl ná forealdige; gif hit for[h]ealden sí, ꝥ his man brúcan ne mæge, forbærne hit man,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 252, 7
    • .
  • Hé funde on þám mynstre ... I. forealdodne nihtsang ... and II. forealdode rǽdingbéc swíþe wáke,

    • Cht. Th. 430, 25-31
    • .
of abstract things
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  • Mín mægn forealdode,

    • Ps. Th. 31, 3.
of a period of time,
to run out, expire
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  • Seó syxte yld þe nú ys hyre geendung ys swýðe ungewis, ac hyre yld sceal forealdian and mid worulde ende beón geendod,

    • Angl. viii. 336, 13
    • .
Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. forold.
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