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to add.
wilh the idea of supplementing or com-pleting
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  • Huelchwoego in aldum bócum tó éccanne aliquid in veteribus libris addere, Mt. p. i. 9. (l a)

    to add to. (α)

    with dat. :-- Ðá eádigan fundon þás dómas and Cantwara rihtum þeáwum ǽcton,
      Ll. Th. i 36, 13,
with prep.
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  • Hé þám bisceope gesealde on ǽht þreó hund hída and þǽr eác ýhte tó. Bd. 4,

      16; Sch. 425, 23.
  • Gif wé þonne gyld árǽrdon ꝥ him man ýhte ufon on ꝥ be his wlites weorðe,

      Ll. Th. i. 234, 6.
with the idea of increase, augmentation
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  • Meotud umbor ýceð,

      Gn. Ex. 31.
  • Hé ús monna mǽst morðra gefremede and swýðor gýt ýcan wolde, Jud. 183. (2 a)

    to add

    after, to :-- Man íhte yfel æfter óðrum,
      Wlfst. 156, 12.
  • Ícan áne elne tó his anlícnesse. Lk. 12, 25.
to add to.
by way of supplement or completion
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  • Þás láreówas ne sceolan Godes dómas náwþer ne ná wanian ne ne écan. Bl. H. 81, 4. (la) the material of addition given
in dat. Cf.
I a α
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  • Hlóðhære and Eádríc écton þá ǽ, þá þe heora aldoras ǽr geworhton, þyssum dómum,

      Ll. Th. i. 26, 5.
with mid.
Cf.
I a β
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  • Yc ꝥ mid wíne,

      Lch. ii. 208, 2.
  • Ýce þonne mid ecede,

      184, 20 : 190, 12.
  • Críst cwæð ꝥ hé ne cóme nó þás bebodu tó brecanne ac mid eallum gódum tó ícanne (

    non veni solvere, sed adimplere,

      Mt. 5, 17), Ll. Th. i. 56, 2.
to increase, augment, enlarge
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  • Under hú micelle frécenesse hié liecgað, and hú hié íceað (iéceað, v. l.) hira forwyrd

    quantis lapsibus succrescentis ruinae subjaceant,

      Past. 233, 24.
  • Hié hiera unðeáwas iéceað (iécað,

    v. l.) culpa cumulatur,

      289, 14.
  • Ðæt hé wunda tó suíðe ne íce (iéce,

    v. l.

    ),
      125, 15.
  • Ðá cræftas hí nyllað iécan,

      463, 7.
  • Éced

    mactus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 71. (2 a) to increase with
with dat.
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  • Hé iécte mægðum and mæcgum mǽgburge síne,

      Gen. 1122.
with
mid
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  • Hé ícte (iécte,

    v. l. cumulavit

    ) his ágne scylde mid ðǽm æfste,
      Past. 233, 21.
  • Nimen hié him bisene on hira gódan weorcum, and ícen (iécen, v. l.) hié simle mid hira ágenum

    proximorum facta imitando multiplicent,

      229, 16.
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v. æt-ícan, ge-ícan, oþ-ícan, ot-ícan, tó-ícan, under-ícan.
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