Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An old preterit of find.
- To seek (to do a thing); try; endeavor: followed by an infinitive.
- To prove; test; examine.
- To tempt; entice (to do evil). The deuell hadde of him gret enuye and onde [hatred]; O [one] tyme he cam to his smyth the alone him to fonde. Life of St. Dunstan, l. 69 (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall).
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To seek (to do a thing); try; attempt; endeavour; make a shift.
- v. transitive To test; examine; make a trial of; prove.
- v. transitive To put someone through a trial; test; tempt; entice.
- v. simple past of find.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. of find.
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English fand, first and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan ("to find"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The bottom of the Mobille confifts ofi a black clay; that of the fouth-eaft branch of the Miffif - lippi of a whitifh clay with a fmall mixture of fine •fand; and that at the fea mark is likewife of a whitifh clay, but entirely def - titute of fand.”
Internet Archive: Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771
“Keine sehr große Überraschung, da ich auch alle anderen Bände der Psy/Changeling-Serie toll fand.”
“Pitty the bosses seem to be such monty python fand these days and insist on making it look like the “Ministry for silly policing”.”
“Fox News cites one former Bush official who slammed the approach as "de facto amnesty," accusing the Obama administration of "turning a blind eye to entire categories of aliens" fand failing to arrest and deport the illegal immigrants who turn up on these workplace audits.”
The Washington Post: How Obama is firing immigrant workers -- but not deporting them
“Seine Frau fand das Rezept zum ersten Mal ihr Ehemann, und die Pillen selbst.”
“Ich fand dieses Video und auch diese Seite über einen Link aus Star Trek Phase II und nachdem ich diese Kostprobe gesehn habe, freue ich mich umso mehr auf die kommenden Episoden mit Animationen wie diesen!”
““Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.””
Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
““Nelli Neumann fand die Mathematik einfacher als den Haushalt (Studienzeit in Göttingen, III).””
“Er erzählt von einem einarmigen Bettler, den er am Rande einer Amsterdamer Gracht hat sitzen sehen, er fand ihn umgeben von einer Aura der Beschämtheit.”
“And troth when they fand them, they didna mak muckle mair ceremony than a”
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