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THE INFINITIVE WITH NOUNS. 
gast, spirit: 
Greg. 263.21: Ne underfengon ge no bone Gast set fulluhte to Seowigeanne 
for ege = 198.22: Non accepistis spiritum servitutis iterum in timore. 
gierd [gyrd], rod: 
Greg. 127.1: Gif t5ser Sonne sie gierd mid to Sreageanne, sie Sser eac stsef mid 
to wrebianne = 88.14: Si ergo est districtio virgse, quse feriat, sit et consolatio 
baculi, quse sustentet. 
Wcerf. 20.27: he nsefde gyrde hine mid to sleanne = 161 C: Et quia virgam 
qua eum ferire posset. 
gryre, horror: 
Bede 364.5: Sa <5e . . . oSrum on gryre wseron to neosienne = 270.6: qui 
. . . aliis horrori erant ad uisendum. 
mete, meat: 
J. 4.32: Ic hsebbe bone mete to etanne <5e ge nyton = Ego cibum habeo 
manducare quern vos nescitis. 
son, sound: 
Bede 258.24: Swylce eac sonas to singenne = 205.11: sonos cantandi. 
stsef, stick, staff: 
Greg. 127.2: quoted under gierd. 
Sing, thing: 
Mlf. Horn. 1. 222 *: Seos dsed getacnaS sum Sing to donne on Godes gelaSunge. 
Mlf. Gr. 119.10 a * b : verbum ys word . . . getacniende oSSe sum Sing to 
donne oSSe sum Sing to Srowigenne oSSe naSor = Verbum est pars orationis 
. . . aut agere aliquid aut pati aut neutrum significans. 
Gosp.: L. 7.40: Symon, ic habbe Se to secgenne sum Sing = Simon, habeo 
tibi aliquid dicere (or objective?). — L. 24.41: Hsebbe ge her senig Sing to 
etennef = Habetis hie aliquid quod manducetur. — J. 4.11: Leof, ne Su nsefst 
nan Sing mid to hladanne = Domine, neque in quo haurias habes. 
wela, wealth: 
And. 1160: welan ne benohton beornas to brucanne. [Dr. Reussner, l. c., 
p. 27, and Dr. Kenyon, l. c., p. 19, consider the infinitive to be a final modifier 
of the verb, not of the noun.] 
wundor, wonder: 
Bede 164.27: Sset is wundor to cweSanne = 138.9: quod mirum dictu est. 
Aside from the foregoing use of the inflected infinitive with nouns, which 
may be called the regular use, we have, as remarked by Dr. Wiilfing , 2 1. c., II, 
p. 225, a use of the inflected infinitive in which it is almost a pure adjective. 
Or perhaps it would be better to consider that we have, as it were, an elliptical 
gerunclial periphrastic; in these examples, as usually in the predicative infini¬ 
tive with beon (wesan ), the infinitive is passive in sense, and translates a Latin 
gerundive. I note all of what seem to me the clearer cases: — 
Bened. 134.4: Syx synt muneca cynerena, Sara synt Sreo Sa selestan, Sa 
oSere Sreo Sa forcuSestan and eallum gemete to forbugenne - 0. 
Bede 100 . 2 : Sisses geleafa / wyrenis seo lefed Gode onfenge 7 allum to 
fylgenne= 82.2: huius fides et operatio Deo deuota atque omnibus sequenda 
credatur. 
AElf. L. S. XXXIV. 67: hwcet biS sefre soSlicre oS<5e to gelyfenne senigum 
lifigendum menu? 
