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fullian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
fullian, to fulfil.
Wright's OE grammar
§536; §643;
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to become full, fill up (intrans.)
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  • Tó wunde clǽnsunge . . . smire þá wunde mid, þonne fullad hió,

      Lch. ii. 92, 7.
to make full, fill
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  • Þá ylcan ungesewenlican gefyllende onstyriað and gyt fullíað þá mænniscan líchaman

    ipsa invisibilia implendo movent carnalia corpora,

      Gr. D. 270, 16.
to fulfil an order,
carry out an injunction
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  • Ic ðás forecuaedenan uuord fullíae,

      C. D. i. 293, 1.
Etymology
[O. Sax. fullón to do a person's will: O. H. Ger. follón.]
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v. ge-fullian.
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