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OTHER ADVERBIAL USES OF THE INFINITIVE. 
A. S. Horn. & L. S. I. 9.127 a> b : he gedyde hi sona mihtige and strange to 
wi&standenne heora feondum. 
swi?5, strong, 'powerful: 
Dan. 285: trn eart mihtum swi<5 ni<5as to nergenne! 
Az. 6: <5u eart meahtum swi& nibas to nergenne. 
ungeomful, negligent: 
Greg. 239.2: obbe eft sio bilewitnes & sio anfealdnes hine to ungeornfulne 
gedoo to ongietanne, <5ylses he weorbe besolcen = 180.14: quatenus nec seducti 
per prudentiam calleant, nec ab intellectus studio ex simplicitate torpescant. 
unstrang, not strong: 
Mart. 146.14: his browung wses be lengre ond by heardre by be hyra handa 
waeron unstrange hine to acwellane. 
Wcerf. 63.19: se be naht unstrang nis wrsece to donne = 193 B 3 : qui ad 
inferendam ultionem quam voluerit, invalidus non est (or final?). 
unswete, unsweet: 
Lcece. 16.2: gif bu hine nimest j gaderast set fylne bonne ne bib he to un¬ 
swete to gestincanne. 
2. With Verbs. 
Verbs meaning to incite, to persuade, to compel, to prepare, to suffice, and the 
like are followed by an inflected infinitive denoting tendency or result. It is 
difficult, if not impossible, to draw a hard-and-fast line between the consecu¬ 
tive use of the infinitive denoting tendency or result and the final use of the 
infinitive denoting purpose, so imperceptibly does the one use pass into the 
other. Accordingly, as noted below, a few of my examples for the consecu¬ 
tive use are by others, notably by Dr. Kenyon, put under the final use. In¬ 
deed, Dr. Kenyon’s second subdivision of the “ The Prepositional Infinitive 
of Purpose,” in which, as he states, l. c., p. 18, “ The infinitive often denotes, 
not so much a consciously conceived, final purpose of the action of the govern¬ 
ing verb, as simply the direction, tendency, or destiny of it,” is scarcely dis¬ 
tinguishable from what he (on p. 59) and I both consider the consecutive use. 
On the other hand, Dr. Kenyon, l. c., p. 60, considers that, in AElf. L. S. 368.78 
(ne galdras ne sece, to gremigenne his scyppend), the infinitive is consecutive, 
but to me it seems final. Once more: unquestionably to some the inflected 
infinitive after verbs like tilian, 1 strive for/ may seem to belong either here 
under the consecutive use or in Chapter X under the final use; but, as this 
verb is followed also by the uninflected infinitive, I have considered the infini¬ 
tive, whether uninflected or inflected, after it as objective rather than as 
adverbial. Again, in some of the examples below (especially with verbs of 
compelling) we may have an inflected predicative instead of a consecutive infini¬ 
tive: see the note to neadian. Finally, it should be added that Dr. Hoser, l. c., 
p. 38, cites Doomsday, 1. 186 (nsenig sprsec mseg beon, spellum areccan senegum 
on eorban earmlice witu), as having an uninflected infinitive of result, and 
that he is quoted approvingly by Professor Kenyon, l. c., p. 60, but to me 
areccan seems predicative after mceg. 
I. WITH AN ACTIVE FINITE VERB. 
The inflected infinitive is found after the active of the following verbs to 
denote tendency or result: — 
