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forþ-fæderas

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in a natural sense
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  • Eówere forðfæderas (

    patres uestri,

      Jn. 6, 58)
    ǽton þone heofonlican mete, Hml. Th. ii. 266, 30: i. 558, 20.
  • Heora heortan gerihtlǽcan mid heora fórðfædera gebysnunge (v. Acts, c. 7),

      46, 9.
  • Bið gelóme ofsprincg forscyldegod þurh fordfædera mándǽda,

      114, 22.
  • Forþfæderas

    tritavos,

      An. Ox. 847.
in an ecclesiastical sense
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  • Þára drohtnunge ic gesweotelige swá swá úre forþfæderas hit gesettan

    quorum (monachorum) conversationem, ut patrum edocet institutio, intimabo,

      R. Ben. 136, 29.
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[v. N. E. D. forthfather.]
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  • forþ-fæderas,