THE INFINITIVE OF SPECIFICATION WITH VERBS. 
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= 309.11: delectatus nimirum suauitate ac decore loci illius, quem intuebar, 
simul et consortio eorum quos in illo uidebam. 
(2) The Inflected Infinitive: 
aforhtian, be afraid: 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II. 18.357: ic earma nu aforhtige to secgenne hwset me 
becom (or objective?). 
bisorgian, regret: 
Chr. 1555: Ne bisorgatS he synne to fremman (sic!), wonhydig mon. [On 
this infinitive, Dr. Kenyon, l. c., p. 71, speaks as follows: “ In a sentence like 
Christ, 1556, Ne bisorgad he synne to fremman , it is hard to say whether we 
have a complementary or a true causal infinitive. Such an example in O. F. 
would be explicable as causal, with a or de + infinitive, on the ground of the 
original meaning of the preposition itself, but hardly so in O. E. It may be 
that in many such cases in O. E. the present object of the infinitive (synne) was 
originally object of the main verb (bisorga$), so that the infinitive could have 
its natural purpose force, as further explication. But in both O. F. and O. E., 
constructions like this with verbs of dislike, sorrowing, etc., w*ould easily arise 
by analogy of words like desire + infinitive.”] 
forhtian, be afraid, fear: 
Mlf. Horn. I. 538 b : Be Sam we forhtiad fela to sprecenne (or objective?).— 
76. II. 554* 3 : Seah ne forhtiatS to wunigenne on heora unrihtwisnyssum (or 
objective?). 
forsc(e)ami(g)an, be ashamed: 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. II. 18.189: ic nu forsceamige to secganne mine un- 
geleaffulnesse. 
Wulf. 275.23: forSam na Set he naht, forsceame he Sset riht to secgenne. 
geunlustian, loathe: 
Bl. Horn. 59.9: se lichoma geunlustad Sa geogoSlustas to fremmenne (or 
objective?). 
B. THE INFINITIVE OF SPECIFICATION WITH VERBS. 
Aside from denoting Specification (or Respect Wherein) with Adjectives 
(already treated in Chapter XI), occasionally the infinitive, always inflected, 
seems to be used with a verb to denote Specification: — 
1. With an Active Finite Verb. 
drefan, trouble: 
Mf. L. S. XXIII B. 283: To hwy gedrefest Su abbot Sine geSohtas to 
geceswicianne on me (or final?). 
efstan, hasten: 
Mlf. Horn. II. 364: swa miccle swiSor we efstaS to lybbenne swa micclum 
swa we swiSor on Sissere oncnawennysse Seonde beoS (or final?). 
forlaetan, leave: 
Bede 82.22: Ses mon is his seolfes dome to forlcetenne, oSSe be cirican ingonge, 
oSSe to onfonne Ssem geryne = 58.25: iste profecto siue de ingressu ecclesiae, 
seu de sumendo dominici corporis sanguinisque mysterio, suo est iudicio re- 
linquendus. [Cf. Chapter III, p. 78.] 
slawian, be or become sluggish: 
