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OTHER ADVERBIAL USES OF THE INFINITIVE. 
JElf. L. S. XXIII B. 224: hwses wilnast bu fram me to hsebbenne obbe to 
witenne bset bu ne slawedest swa micel geswinc to gefremmanne for minum 
bingum? 
2. With a Passive Finite Verb. 
abysgian, occupy, engage: 
Wcerf. 88.18: bat se msessepreost wees unwenlice abysgod wingeard to 
settanne = 212 C 1 : Qui videlicet sacerdos inopinate contigit ut ad putandam 
vineam esset occupatus (or final?). 
(ge)l£eran, teach, instruct: 
Wcerf. 180.26: bset he gelcered wees wyrta to begangenne = 217 C 1 : Quod vir 
gentilis valde libenter accepit, cum in nutriendis oleribus quia peritus esset 
audivit. 
All of the foregoing examples, with both active and passive verbs, seem 
doubtful to me except Wcerf. 180.26. 
C. THE CONSECUTIVE INFINITIVE. 
I have found very little concerning the Consecutive Use of the Infinitive 
in Anglo-Saxon. Dr. K. Kohler and Dr. Wulfing do not treat this use apart 
from that of purpose. In his “ The Clause of Result in Old English Prose,” 
Dr. A. R. Benham does not include the infinitive. Professor Einenkel treats 
the construction in Middle English, but says nothing of it in Anglo-Saxon. 
Matzner treats the consecutive infinitive after particles (so, as, such, enough, 
too, more than), in III, 48-49, and the infinitive of result that is loosely con¬ 
nected with the rest of the sentence, in III, 49-50, but he says nothing of 
either use in Anglo-Saxon. Koch, too, has a word about the infinitive after 
particles, in II, 64, but likewise says nothing of the idiom in Anglo-Saxon. 
Aside from these two statements, the most specific comments are those by 
Dr. Buchtenkirch, Dr. Hoser, and Dr. Kenyon, which are quoted below. 
At times the inflected infinitive denotes Tendency or Result, and in such 
use is found (a) with Adjectives and (b) with Verbs. 
1. With Adjectives. 
It is difficult to distinguish this use of the inflected infinitive with adjec¬ 
tives to denote tendency or result from its use with adjectives to denote speci¬ 
fication (or respect wherein). But in the examples below, those in which the 
adjective is preceded by an adverb ( swa or to) seem to me pretty certainly to 
denote tendency or result, and thus to be clearly differentiated from the in¬ 
flected infinitive with adjectives as treated in Chapter XI. Even this use with 
swa and to has been denied to Anglo-Saxon, as by Dr. Buchtenkirch, l. c., 
p. 41, who, in speaking of this construction in Occleve, declares: “ Im Angel- 
sachsischen scheint der Infinitiv in dieser Verbindung garnicht vorzukommen; 
wenigstens fiihren Matzner und Kohler keine Belege an.” 
I cite all of what seem to me the clearer examples: — 
With several adjectives: 
Bl. Horn. 109.29, 30: Ne beo nsenig man her on worldrice on his gebohte 
to modig, ne on his lichoman to strang, ne niba to georn, ne bealwes to beald, ne 
bregda to full, ne inwit (sic!) to leof, ne wrohtas to webgenne, ne searo to renigenne. 
