Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
fare .
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Examples
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Þa ferde he mid micel færd into engle [la] nd. ⁊ wan castles. ⁊ te king ferde agenes hi {m} mid {180} micel mare ferd. ⁊ þoþwæthere fuhtten hi noht. oc ferden þe ærceb {iscop} ⁊ te wise me ` n´ betwux heo {m}. ⁊ makede ð sahte ð te king sculde ben lauerd ⁊ king wile he liuede.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Gif hwa wule witen hwa erest bi won reste þam wrecche saule to soþe ic eow segge. þet wes s {an} c {t} e paul þe apostel and mihhal þe archangel heo tweien eoden et sume time in {} to helle alswa heo {m} drihten het for to lokien hu hit þer ferde.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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On his p {ro} cession ferde sume biforen him ⁊ makede his weie to {} ward ier {usa} l {e} m. ⁊ sume briggeden þe asse mid here cloðes. ⁊ sume mid boges þe hie breken of þe trewes.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Ah neoðeles ich wulle eou at {} hælde {;} An mine anwalde. for norð Beoð þa Peohtes {;} swiðe ohte cnihtes. þe ofte ledeð in mine londe {;} ferde swiðe stronge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þær eft {er} scæ ferde ouer sæ. ⁊ hi of normandi wenden alle fra þe king. to þe eorl of Angæu. sume here þankes ⁊ sume here unþankes. for he be {} sæt heo {m} til hi aiauen up here castles. ⁊ hi nan helpe ne hæfden of þe k {inge}.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þa ferde Eustace þe king {es} sune to france ⁊ na {m} þe king {es} suster of france to wife. wende to bigæton {170} normandi þær þurh. oc he spedde litel. ⁊ be gode rihte for he was an yuel man. for ware se he [com he] dide mare yuel þanne god. he reuede þe landes ⁊ læide mic [ele gilde] s on.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Se ferde [went] on his iugothe [youth] fram his freondum and magum [relations] to Scotlande on sæ, and thær sona wearth ge-fullod
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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In this same yere the erle of Schrovesbery leide a sege bothe be water and be lande to Depe, and kepte it awhile til he ferde so foule with hys men that they wolde no lenger abyde with hym; and so he was fayn to hye hym thens to Roane, and so brake sege.
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Ða ferde Iosep fram Galilea of þære ceastre Nazareth on Iudeisce ceastre Dauides, seo is genemned Beþleem, for þam þe he wæs of Dauides huse and hirede; þæt he ferde mid Marian þe him beweddod wæs, and wæs geeacnod.
Making Light 2009
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for wonder of his hwe men hade set in his semblaunt sene he ferde as freke were fade and oueral enker grene SGGK lines 146-15010
Basement cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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