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ge-feallan

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to fall from a higher to a lower position
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  • Ofer þæne þe hé gefylþ

    super quem ceciderit,

      An. Ox. 61, 28.
  • Þá tó heofenum ástígað, nyðer gefeallað under neowulne grund (

    descendant usque ad abyssos

    ),
      Ps. Th. 106, 25: Cri. 1532.
  • Hié hine forlétan and hé gefeól on þone stocc,

      Bl. H. 189, 12.
  • Gefeáll regn

    descendit pluvia,

      Mt. L. 7, 25.
  • Ealle þá yldestan witan gefeóllan of ánre úpflóran, bútan se hálga Dúnstán ána ætstód uppon ánum beáme,

      Chr. 978; P. 123, 2.
  • Se heoton biþ gefeallen æt þǽm feówer endum middangeardes,

      Bl. H. 93, 5.
  • Gefeallen snáw,

      Ps. Th. 148, 8.
to fall from an erect position,
of living things
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  • Áslád and gefióll

    labat,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 62.
  • Gefeoll

    procumberet,

      66, 9.
  • Hé gefeáll onufa suira his,

      Lk. L. 15, 20.
  • Gefeól se ríca on his reste middan,

      Jud. 67.
  • Hé gefeóll tó foldan, 280. (a α)

    to stumble, fall

    into or over :-- Éghuoelc sé ðe gefalleð onufa ðæm stáne,
      Lk. L. R. 20, 18.
  • Gif gefallas scíp in seáð,

      Mt. L. 12, 11.
  • Hí on ðone seáð gefeóllan, Ps. Th. 56, 8. (a β)

    to fall

    in reverence :-- Ꝥ wif forhtade ... and gifeól (gefeall,
      L.) bifora him, Mk. R. 5, 33.
  • Ꝥ wíf gífeóll bifora fótum his,

      Lk. R. 8, 47.
  • Hé gifeóll on onsióne, 17, 16. (a γ) to fall dead or wounded,

    fall

    in battle :-- Gefallas hiá in múðe suordes,
      Lk. L. 21, 24.
  • Micel wæl gefeól,

      Chr. 943; P. 111, 12: 1004; P. 135, 36.
  • Þǽr on greót gefeóll se hýhsta dǽl,

      Jud. 308.
  • Hwæt wæs on manríme ... dareðlácendra deádra gefeallen,

      El. 651.
of material objects, buildings, &c.
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  • Þonne gefeallaþ ealle deófolgyld,

      Bl. H. 93, 16.
  • Þæt hús nó gefeóll (-feáll,

      L.), Mt. R. 7, 25, 27: Lk. L. 6, 49.
to fall,
of persons,
to perish, be ruined
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  • Se líchoma lǽne gedreóseð, fǽge gefealleð,

      B. 1755.
  • Gé sweltað ..., swá ealdormann án gefealleð

    vos moriemini ..., sicut unus de principibus cadetis,

      Ps. Th. 81, 7.
  • Leáf féalewiað, feallað on eorðan, ... swá gefeallað þá þe firena lǽstað,

      Sal. 315.
of things,
to decline, decay, fail
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  • Mycel yfel weaxeþ on þínum ríce, gif þú lǽtest leng þysne drý ríxian, ... and þín ríce for his lárum gefealleþ,

      Bl. H. 181, 34.
  • Eáðor is ... ðon án merce gefalla,

      Lk. L. 16, 17.
to fall to doing something, to fall a-doing, busy one's self at something,
apply with energy to
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  • Hé ofdúne ástáh and gefeóll on þæs ceorles clyppinge

    concitus descendit, atque in ejusdem rustici amplexum ruit,

      Gr. D. 47, 1 [: Ap. Th. 16, 23. v. Dict.
    ].
of that which (violently) affects the mind
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  • Ondo gefeóll (gifeól, R.) ofer hine

    timor irruit super eum,

      Lk. L. 1, 12.
  • Hé fond his mondryhten ádlwérigne; him þæt in gefeól hefig æt heortan,

      Gú. 981.
trans.
to reach by falling, to fall and reach, fall to
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  • Hé meregrund gefeóll,

      B. 2100.
  • Hé hreás on hrúsan ... hé eorðan gefeóll, 2834.
  • Lagu land gefeól (

    of the water of the Red Sea when it fell upon the Egyptians trying to follow in the track of the Israelites

    ),
      Exod. 482: 491.
to cause by falling
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  • Hit is on leóðum gesungen hwelcne demm hie Rómánum gefeóllan (

    quantam reipublicae orbitatem occasu suo intulerit Fabiorum familia

    ),
      Ors. 2, 4; S. 72, 11.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. gi-fallan.]
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