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of-feallan

(v.)

to fall upon, kill by falling, destroy

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Seó módinys wyle offeallan ða eádmódnysse superbia inruere vult super humilitatem, Prud. 32 b. Æfter his fielle wearþ ðara cásera mǽgþ offeallen caesarum familia consumta est, Ors. 6; 6; Swt. 262, 6

of-feallan

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Hí setton Martinum . . . ꝥ se pínbeám hine offeallan sceolde . . . se beám . . . offeól forneán þæs folces micelne dǽl, Hml. S. 31, 402-418. ¶ glossing decidere :-- Ðá steorras heofnes biðon offallende (decidentes), Mk. L. 13, 25. Add

of-fellan

Similar entry: of-fillan

þolung

(n.)
Grammar
þolung, e; f.
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Þá sáwle offeallan mid þolungum animam obruere passionibus, 55, 15

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