Middle English Dictionary Entry
afīnden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | afīnden v. Also avynden. Forms: sg. 3 avint; p.pl. af(ǒ)unde, avūnde. |
| Etymology | OE āfindan |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To find out (sth.), discover, learn; (b) to find (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15852 : Alle þine witien beoð swiðe swikele..þat þu scalt afinde a þisses dæies ferste.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30636 : Al þat he auunde [Otho: afunde]..þurh ælches cunnes þing, he warnede æuerre Ædwine king.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)856 : Hi shulle wel auinde Þat hi mid longe wope mote Of hore sunnen bidde bote.
- a1300(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Jes-O 29)409 : On his lyues ende he hit schal avynde.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)48/1353 : Þet þys ordre hedde ihesus, We habbeþ wel a-founde.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)757 : Þay moȝe no more do þan a ston, & þat y now auynde.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3205 : Hure god doþ euere helpe hem wel, and þat we sore auynde.
- c1450(a1375) Octav.(2) (Clg A.2)52/1659 : Þe Sarsenes afounde, Har lord was slayn.
b
- a1200(?OE) Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)191 : Þenne he auint mannes heorte emti of rihte bileue.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)25775 : Bihald ȝeorne, ȝif þu miht afinden [Otho: ifinde] oht of þan feonden.
- ?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))58 : Þat we dot for godes luue, eft we it scullen afinden [Lamb: al finden; Trin-C: eft finden].