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OTHER SUBSTANTIVAL USES OF THE INFINITIVE. 
gode on feawum mannum obbe on micclum werode to helpenne on gefeohte 
and healdan ba t5e he wile (or subjective?). 
(2) Inflected: 
With beon + a noun or pronoun, arranged in alphabetic order of noun or 
pronoun: 
— earfobnes, difficulty: 
Mlj. L. S. XXV. 310 a : Nis nan earfo&nyss bsem selmihtigan gode on feawum 
mannum obbe on micclum werode to helpenne on gefeohte and healdan ba tSe 
he wile (or subjective?). 
— frecednes, difficulty: 
Mlj. Horn. II. 160 b : wees bam gebrobrum micel frecednys to astigenne 
dseghwomlice of bam cludum to wseterscipe (or subjective?). 
— gemet, propriety, right: 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II. 10.521: He ba Ioseph cwseb mid bifiendre stefne: 
Nis min gemet swilcum cilde to onfonne, forban be ic hsebbe fela bearna and ba 
synd ealle yldran bonne heo. 
— hwaet, what? 
Mlj. Horn. II. 76 4 : Hwcet is to ewedenne, bset nan man us to bam wingearde 
ne gehyrde, buton bset nan man us ne bodade lifes weig? — lb. II. 574*: Hwcet 
is to cweSenne, “Ne cann ic eow,” buton bset ic ne worhte eowbyllice? [Or is 
the infinitive subjective in each?] 
— hwile [-y-], which, what: 
Mlj. Horn. I. 614*: Understandab nu hwile sy on weges geswince to ateori - 
genne, and beah nelle bone weg geendigan. 
Wulf. 214.22: gif ge nellab gelefan, men ba leofestan, bses serendgewrites, 
bonne ne gebencab ge na, hu bset deofol bam ancre ssede, hwylc hit in helle 
wcere to wunianne. 
— maeb, power, ability: 
Mlj. Horn. I. 298 4 : Nis na eower meet f to witenne bone timan, be min Fseder 
burh his mihte gesette. 
— sorh, sorrow: 
Beow. 473: Sorh is me to seeganne . . . gumena sengum, hwset me Grendel 
hafab . . . gefremed (or subjective, as Dr. K. Kohler, l. c. f p. 45, holds?). 
— beaw, custom: 
Bede 202.29: Bset eac swilce his Seawwces on obrum cyninges tune to donne 
= 160.1: quod ipsum et in aliis uillis regiis facere solebat. 
J. 19.40: Hig namon bses Hselendes lichaman, and bewundon hine mid 
linenum clabe mid wyrtgemangum, swa Iudea <5eaw ys to bebyrgenne = sicut 
mos est Judseis sepelire. 
— wundor, wonder: 
Beow. 1724: Wundor is to seeganne, hu mihtig god manna cynne burh sidne 
sefan snyttru bryttab, eard and eorlscipe (or subjective? Dr. K. Kohler, l. c., 
p. 48, strange to say, holds that the infinitive modifies the noun, wundor). 
gebyrian, be jilting: 
Wulj. 279.5 a * b : ne gebyretS set cyrican senig bing to donne, butan god to 
herianne and hine to gebiddanne (or subjective?). 
As to the differentiation of the uninflected infinitive as predicate nominative 
from the inflected infinitive, it is substantially the same as in the subjective 
