forniman

Meaning

1. to take away, plunder, waste, ransack

   drēame bidrorene; · duguþ eal ġecrong, wlonc bī wealle. · Sume wīġ fornōm,

   The wine-halls ramble; lords lie still, deprived of mirth; army completely perished, proud by the wall. The war took away some men,

   Wōriað þā wīnsalo; · waldend liċġað

2. to take hold of, seize, do away with; fordo

3. to consume; fret, devour

4. to destroy

   Marus ġemētte ænne man eft sē wæs yfele ġetawod and hine ǣt se cancor and his weleres wǣron āwlǣtte mid ealle and ēac his nosu fornumen mid āttre...

   Again Maurus found a man who was evilly stricken, and a cancer was eating him, and his lips were rendered loathsome thereby, and likewise his nose destroyed by the poison;...

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

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