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án-feald

  • numeral
  • adjective
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Wright's OE grammar
§426; §453; §628;
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  • Ánfeald

    simplex,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 50.

  • Ánfald

    simpla,

      120, 55.
as numeral, single, sole
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  • Anfealdre

    simplo (volumine),

      An. Ox. 2376.

  • Tó ánfealdan gewinne

    ad singularem pugnam,

      R. Ben. l. 10, 2.

  • Náht elles búton his ánfealdne gegyrelan,

      Bl. H. 215, 3.

  • On eallum þisum men sécaþ ánfealde eádignesse

    (solam bealitudinem),

      Bt. 24, 3; F. 84, 10.

  • Gif mon næbbe búton ánfeald hrægl, Ll.

    Th. i.

      52, 24.
simple, not resolvable into components :
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  • Ánfeald and untódǽlendlic, þeáh hine dysige men on mænig tódǽlen,

      Bt. 33, 1; S. 74, 30: 76, 9: 33, 2; S. 76, 12.
simple, unmixed
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  • Þeáh hit us manigfealdlic ðince, sum god, sum yfel, hit is þeáh him ánfeald gód,

      Bt. 39, 6; F. 220, 8.

  • Hit hwílum gewurþ ꝥ þǽm gódum becymþ ánfeald yfel, and þám yflum ánfeald gód, and óþre hwíle ǽgþer gemenged,

      39, 9; F. 224, 29.

  • Tó tácnunge án-fealdes sáres,

      7, 2; F. 18, 21.
simple, without addition or
amplification, no more than
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  • Se Ióannes wæs ácenned swá swá óðre menn beóð and wæs ánfeald man, mǽre and geðungen

    (he was simply a great and illustrious man),

      Hml. Th. ii. 36, 29.
    þonne wé sceolan habban ánfeald leán þæs þe wé on lífe ǽr geworhtan, Ll. Th. i. 370, 21: Wlfst. 209, 13: 208, 33.

  • Fela árison mid Críste ðe wǽron ánfealde men, ðeáh ðe Críst God sý,

      Hml. Th. i. 226, 5.
simple, plain,
of persons
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  • Da bilwitan ánfealdan

    simplices,

      Past. 237, 14.

  • Mid ðǽm bilwitum and mid ðǽm ánfealdum

    cum simplicibus,

      243, 17.
  • Críst geceas hyrdas and yrðlingas and ánfealde fisceras. Hml. S. 5, 225.
of things
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  • Þonne þincþ þám ungelǽredum ꝥ eall ꝥ andgit beó belocen on þǽre ánfealdan gerecednisse,

      Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 2, 32.
simple, uniform, fixed, invariable
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  • ꝥ is openlíce cúþ ꝥ sió godcunde foreteohhung is ánfeald and unawendendlic

    illud certe manifestum est, immobilem simplicemque gerendarum formam rerum esse providentiam,

      Bt. 39, 6; F. 220, 16: 39, 4; F. 216, 30.

  • Æt þǽm stillan and æt þǽm gestæþþigan and æt þǽm ánfealdan Gode

    ex divinae mentis stabilitate,

      39, 5; F. 218, 15: 39, 6; F. 220, 25.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “án-feald.” 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/38694.

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