THE ACTIVE INFINITIVE. 
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predicative?). — L. 9.59: alyf me aeryst bebyrigean minne faeder = permitte 
mihi primum ire, et sepelire patrem meum (or predicative?). 
( 2 ) Inflected: 
Mat. 8 . 21 a : quoted above. 
Mlj. L. S. 102.227: bam alyfde se casere heora cristendom to healdenne. 
gebafian, allow, consent: 
( 1 ) Uninflected: 
Mlj. L. S. XXIII B. 606: him ne ge&afode fulfremodlice on ba eorban 
astreccan. 
( 2 ) Inflected: 
Bede 276.31: hwaeber heo geSajedon ba domas to healdenne = 215.24: si 
consentirent ea . . . custodire. 
Mlj. Horn. I. 4 b : Se . . . God ge&afa$ bam arleasan Antecriste to wyrcenne 
tacna. 
sellan, grant, allow: 
( 1 ) Uninflected: 
Beow. 3056: nefne god sylfa . . . sealde, bam be he wolde (he is manna 
gehlyd) hord openian. 
( 2 ) Inflected: 
Schopf. 30: bonne him frea sylle to ongietanne godes agen bibod. 
3. Verbs of Mental Perception: — 
findan, find, strive: 
( 1 ) Uninflected: 
El. 1255: swa ic on bocum fand wyrda gangum, on gewritum cy&an be bam 
sigebeacne. 
(2) Inflected: 
Dan. 544: baed hine areccan, hwaet seo run bude, hofe haligu word 7 in 
hige funde to gesecganne sobum wordum, hwaet etc. 
geleomian, learn: 
( 1 ) Uninflected: 
Bede 404.22: he geleornode . . . ingong geopenian baes heofonlican lifes 
= 292.17: didicerat . . . patere . . . introitum. 
( 2 ) Inflected: 
Bede 210.31: eall ba be he geleornade to donne = 164.22: quae agenda 
didicerat. 
gemyntan, intend, determine: 
(1) Uninflected: 
Ex. 199: hcefdon hie gemynted to bam maegenheapum to bam aerdaege Isra- 
hela cynn billum abreotan on hyra broborgyld. 
Chron. 22 h , 616 F a> b : he hcefde gemynt eal bis land forlcetan 7 ouer s&faran. 
Mlj. L. S. 154.127 b : se hcefde gemynt mynster to araerenne and mid munecum 
qesettan. — lb. 502.255: ba halgan be he ealre worulde . . . onwreon gemynte. 
(2) Inflected: 
Mlj. Horn. I. 414 1 : baba God gemynte his yfelnysse to geendigenne. — lb. 
II. 578* 2 : baet tempel be his faeder gemynte to arcerenne. 
Mlj. L. S. 154.127 3 : quoted under “ Uninflected ” above. — lb. 212.51: 
swa hwaet swa bu gemyntest on forbsibe to donne. — lb. XXV. 769: Heliodorus 
ba gemynte ba mabmas to genimenne. 
