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  • Ic fleáh of wícum,

      Gen. 2273.

  • Him gewát Hróðgár út of healle,

      B. 663.
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  • Wit unc simble ondrédon hwonne wit sceoldon feallan of þám olfende,

      Shrn. 38, 16.
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  • Þá Lapithe gesáwon Thesali of hiora horsum beón feohtende wið hié,

      Ors. I. 9 ; S. 42, 33.
  • Hé wyrðode wordum wuldres aldor . . . of carcerne. An. 57.
  • Sió stefn gewearð gehéred of heofonum, 168.
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  • Hwæðer him ðæt geðóht cume of fǽrlicum luste ðe of wilnunga,

      Past. 417, 5.

  • Þú tída gehwane of sylfum þé symle inlíhtest, Cri. 108. III a. denoting cause, reason :-- Hé in yrmðum wunode þe of his lufan

    (from love of him)

    ádrég,
      An. 164.
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  • Ic ðweá bed mín of teárum mínum

    lavabo lectum meum lachrymis meis,

      Ps. Spl. 6, 6.

  • Bebeád ic eów þæt gé bróðor míne árétten of þám ǽhtum þe ic eów geaf,

      Cri. 1502.

  • Hé áfédde of fixum twám and of fíf hláfum fíra cynnes fíf þúsendo,

      An. 589.
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  • Of þám (báne) worhte God fǽmnan,

      Gen. 183.
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  • where removal, &c. , is from a material object

    Wæterfrocgan hwílon man gesihð of wætere,

      Chrd. 96, 28.

  • Gif monnes tunge bið of heáfde,

      Ll. Th. i. 94, 20.
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  • Sume men of hiora scome

    (pudore amisso)

    þá wǽtan þigdon,
      Nar. 9, 21.

  • Of þǽm feóndscipe þe ús ǽr betweónum wæs, ꝥ hé seoþþan wæs mé freónd,

      19, 19.

  • Sé bið áðwægen of unclǽnnesse,

      Past. 421, 21.

  • Hé Godes lage and láre forlǽt, and ðurh deófles láre of dám déð ðe his crístendóme tó gebyreð,

      Wlfst. 78, 15.

  • Of wlite wendað wæstma gecyndu,

      Gú. 15.

  • Eów is lár Godes ábróden of breóstum,

      Exod. 269.
  • ¶ with instrumental :-- Ðý lǽs hié wyrðen áwyrtwalode of ðýs andwerdan lífe, Past. 339, 18.
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  • Æfter þysum ongunnon of ðám gegaderwyrhtum tǽlan ðone hálgan,

      Hml. S. 6, 186.

  • Sum ridda geband on ánum cláþe of þám hálgan dúste,

      26, 223.

  • Achan behýdde of ðám herereáfe,

      Hex. 54, 4.

  • Swilce hé ǽte of þám spice,

      Hml. S. 25, 92.

  • Hé Pehta þeóde of þám mǽstan dǽle

    (maxima ex parte)

    Ongelcynnes ríce underþeódde,
      Bd. 3, 24; Sch. 313, 19.
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  • Godes gást him wæs on wunigende ǽfre of ðám dæge,

      Hml. Th. ii. 64, 14.
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  • Swelce hé plantige treówu, and ceorfe of ðá wyrtruman,

      Past. 449, 33.

  • Þonne seó sául of biþ,

      Bl. H. 57, 35 : 111, 32.

  • Fleót ꝥ fám of,

      Lch. ii. 104, 20.
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  • Gif preóst miswurðige circan þe eal his wurðscipe of sceal árísan,

      Ll. Th. ii. 294, 10.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “of.” 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/56087.

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