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fremdian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Substitute:
to alienate, make indifferent to
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  • Fram weoruldwilnungum hine sceal gehwá fremdian

    a seculi actibus se facere alienum,

      R. Ben. 17, 4.
to deprive of
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  • Ne fremda (cf. l. 443) þú [mé] þǽre gesihþeþe þú mé ǽrest æteówdest,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 670.
to make an alien of a person,
excommunicate
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  • Fremðiga

    anathematizare,

      Mk. R. 14, 71.
  • Fremdian (frendian,

    MS. The word is a gloss on

      Mk. 14, 71), Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 31.
Etymology
[Goth. framaþjan to alienate.]
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v. á-, ge-fremdian.
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