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THE OBJECTIVE INFINITIVE. 
Mlf. Hept.: Num. 24.11: ic hcefde gemynt be to arwurSienne = decreveram 
. . . honor are te. 
Wulf. 277.26: Dauid cyning hit hcefde gemynt aer to donne. 
gestihhian, determine, decide: 
(1) Uninflected: 
Bede 218.9: gestihhade his life geendian = 168.2: uitam finire disposuit. 
(2) Inflected: 
Solil. 38.1: be bam bingum be bu me aer sedest bat bu gestyohhod hceafde to 
forletanne = 0. 
leomian, learn: 
(1) Uninflected: 
Mlf. Horn. II. 416 b : baet men leornion agyldan god for yfele. 
(2) Inflected: 
Bede 246.7: ba ba he in wreotum leornade to donne = 194.29: quae in scrip- 
turis agenda didicerat. 
Greg. 441.17: Donne hi leorniad mid fulre estfulnesse ba soban god to 
secanne = 368.15: Tunc igitur pleno voto discunt vera bona discere.lb. 
441.28: Leornad bonne to lujianne baet he aer forhogde = 368.25: discat diligere 
quae contemnebat. 
Mlf. L. S. 132.242: Da be habbab geleafan and leornodon to campienne. — 
76. 344.127 b : Ne het he us na leomian heofonas to wyrcenne. 
myntan, think, intend: 
(1) Uninflected: 
Beow. 713: Mynte se manscaba manna cynnes sumne besyrwan in sele bam 
hean. 
Chr. 1058: TEr sceal gebencan gaestes bearfe, se be Gode mynteS bringan 
beorhtne wlite. 
Met. 26.72: mynton forlcetan leofne hlaford. 
Bede 392.20: mynte heo for hiere to abbuddissan gesettan =» 286.1: abbatis- 
sam earn pro se facere disposuerat. 
Wcerf. 12.11: ob baet hit [= clif] com baer hit mynte feallan ofer baet mynster 
= 15 A 2 : 0. — 76. 123.1: stan . . ., bone hi mynton hebban upp = B. 154 A: 
lapis . . ., quern in aedificium levare decreverant. — 76. 254.35: mynte slean 
bone Godes wer = 312 A 1 : 0. 
Bl. Horn. 223.7: mynte hine slean; — so: 223.11. — 76. 223.16: he hine 
stingan mynte. 
(2) Inflected: 
Chron. 265 m , 1137 E f : alse he mint to don (sic!) of be horderwycan. 
bencan, 1 think, attempt: 
(1) Uninflected: 
Beow. 800, 801: on healfa gehwone heawan Sohton, sawle secan. 
Gen. 2437: Wit be bisse straete stifle AencaA saeles bidan. — 76. 2891: hwaer 
is baet tiber, baet bu torht gode to bam brynegielde bringan Sencest f 
Ex. 51: baes be hie wideferb wyrnan dohton Moyses magum. 
Ju. 637: baer hi stearcferbe burh cumbolhete cwellan dohtun. 
El. 296: be eow . . . lysan 8ohte. 
Gu. 260: gif bu ure bidan Sencest. 
1 Cf. Gorrell, l. c., p. 423. 
