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ge-flíman

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Take here ge-nǽman, ge-fléman, ge-fliéman, ge-flýman in Dict., and add:
to put to flight a defeated enemy
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  • Þá Gotan hié mid gefeohte gefliémdon

    victo exercitu,

      Ors. 6, 34; S. 290, 25.

  • Hé gefeaht wiþ Gotan and gefliémed wearð, and bedrifen on ánne tún,

      S. 292, I.
    Grendel wérigmód on weg þanon . . . fǽge and geflýmed feórlastas bær, B. 846. (l a) of spiritual foes :-- Þú scealt wið feónda gehwæne healdan sáuwle þíne ; á hí winnað . . . Þú miht hý geflýman, Dóm. L. 32, 67.

  • Geflémede sié diúblas

    fugantur demones,

      Rtl. 145, 14.
to put to flight, chase an animal
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  • Hǽðstapa hundum geswenced, heorot . . . feorran geflýmed,

      B. 1370.
to drive away inanimate objects
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  • Hé hafaþ ealle þíne þeóstro mid his beorhtnesse geflémed,

      Bl. H. 85, 22.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-flíman.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/47974.

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