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ge-dúfan

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  • Gif hit (

    the ordeal)

    sý wæter, ꝥ hé gedúfe óðre healfe elne on þám rápe,
      Ll. Th. i. 212, 2.
fig.
to plunge into sin, & c.
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  • Swá hit him áliéfedlicre ðyncð, swá hé ðǽr diópor on gedýfð

    quod licitum suspicatur, in hoc multiplicius mergitur,

      Past. 427, 27.
  • Ðá ðe gehealdað wið ðá lytlan scylda, and hwílum gedúfað on ðǽm miclan

    (aliquando in gravibus demerguntur),

      437, 33 : 439, 8.
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[For the passage from Ors. l, 7 see ge-deorfan.]
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  • ge-dúfan,