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tó-faran

  • verb [ strong ]
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tó-faran, p. -fór; pp. -faren.
to go in different directions, go off separately, part
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  • On sumera tófór se here, sum on East-Engle, sum on Norðhymbre,

      Chr. 897; Erl. 94, 25.
  • Ðá hié tógædere woldon, ðá com swá ungemetlíc rén, ðæt heora nán ne mehte nánes wǽpnes gewealdan, and for ðæm tófóran,

      Ors. 4, 10; Swt. 194, 19.
  • Tófóran on feówer wegas ætfelinga bearn

    they went off in four different directions,

      Cd. Th. 102, 8; Gen. 1697.
  • Ær ðam ðe his Apostolas tófarene wǽron geond ealle eorðan tó lǽranne,

      L. Alf. 49; Th. i. 56, 4.
to disperse (intrans.),
scatter
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  • Swelce se bitresta smíc upp ástlge and ðonne wíde tófáre,

      Ors. 3, II ; Swt. 142, 21.
  • Ǽr seó mengeo eft tófaran sceolde,

      Cd. Th. 100, 15; Gen. 1664.
  • Ó his fird tófaren wæs

    until his army was dispersed,

      Ors. 3, II; Swt. 152, 21.
  • Ðonne hié gind ðæt lond tófarene wǽron, hié ðonne hié floccmælum slogan,

      2, 5; Swt. 78, 12: 3, 7 ; Swt. 116, 29.
to go away, pass off, depart, become extinct. v. tð-fær
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  • Syle drincan . . . ðæt yfel tófærþ. Lchdm. i. 118, 6.
  • Syle drincan on wíne, eal ðæt áttor tófærþ,

      122, 18.
  • [The folk . . . shall tofare on every clyve, Anglia iii.
      546, 146.
  • O. Sax. te-faran to disperse; to pass away: O. L. Ger. te-faran deficere: O. H. Ger.]
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v. tó-féran, -gán, - gangan.
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v.  tó-féran.
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