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neáh

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neáh, adv. prep.
Wright's OE grammar
§5; §7; §47; §49; §123; §139; §172; §189; §221; §246; §328; §329; §428; §443; §558; §559;
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  • 'Hér is án lytele burg swíðe neáh' . . . Hé cwæð ðæt hió wǽre swíðe neáh '

    est civitas hic juxta . . . parva' . . . Iiuxa dicitur,

      Past. 399, 25
    Sió sunne þǽr gǽð neár on setl þonne on óðrum lande, Ors. l, I ; S. 24, 18.
  • Scipia geáscade ꝥ þá foreweardas wǽron feor ðǽm fæstenne gesette, and eác ꝥ þǽr náne óðre neár wǽron,

      4, 10; S. 200, 13.
  • Þ se slaga móte mid griðe nýr,

      Ll. Th. i. 250, 17.
  • Þá menn þe þǽr nýcst syndon,

      236, 21.
  • (I a) figurative :-- Sé ðe hyne myd hys módes æágum geseón wele, hé sceal . . . stígan neár and neár stæpmǽlum, Solil. H. 45, 17.
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  • Hét se cing þá módor ealra neáhst ácwellan,

      Shrn. III, 22.
  • Æðelstán and Eádmund, and Eádgár þe níhst wæs,

      Ll. Th. i. 350, 7.
  • Be ðám þe ic nú niéhst ácsode,

      Solil. H. 65, 3.
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  • Hié selfe neáh forwurdon,

      Ors. 2, 6 ; S. 88, 16.
  • Þá gemétte heó hire hwǽte ealne beón neáh

    (pene)

    gedǽledne fram hire ágenum suna,
      Gr. D. 68, 23.
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  • Ealle ðá clifu þe neáh þǽm sǽ wǽron,

      Ors. 5, 4 ; S. 226, 4.
  • Ðǽm ǽrestan godwebbe ðióstro na magon cxxtigum míla neáh gehleonian, Sal. K. 152, 20. (l a) figurative :-- Nú wé sculon eft hwierfan neár Róma

    we must now return in our story to Rome,

      Ors. 2, 5 ; S. 86, 13.
  • Þá áþas wǽren neár máne þonne sóðe,

      4, 3; S. 162, 12.
  • Þ frýnd móton beón bóte nýhst

    that the friends may be most nearly concerned with the

    'bót',
      Ll. Th. i. 256, 4.
  • Godes grið is ealra griða sélast, . . . and þǽr néhst þæs cynges (

    and next to that the king's

    ),
      330, 3.
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  • Nú is þǽre tíde swíþe neáh

    tempus nunc appropinquat,

      Guth. Gr. 164, 3 : Jud. 287.
  • Néh þǽre æftre Scã Marian mæssan,

      Chr. 1048; P. 173, 15.
  • Hit wæs swíðe neáh his lifes ænde

    ad extrema vitae veniens.

      Gr. D. 314. 3.
  • Hwæðer is ðé leófre þe ðú nú onfó þá costnunga, þe neár þínum ende?,

      Hml. S. 30, 132.
(3 a) cf. I.
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  • Neáh ðám eall þá þing þe ðanan cumað wiþ ǽlcum áttre magan

    omnia pene, quae de eadem insula sunt, contra uenenum ualent,

      Bd. l, I ; Sch. 13, 3.
  • Neáh ðon eallum út ágangendum

    cunctis pene egressis,

    i.
      7, Sch. 23, 33.
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v. for-, ful-neáh; þǽr-néhst.
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