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Pr. Ps. 47.1: My cel ys se Dryhten ure God, and swybe to herianne on baere 
byrig ures Drihtnes = Magnus Dominus et laudabile nimis in civitate Dei 
nostri. 
Wwrf. 240.5: Petrus cwseb: 1 is baet forwundorlic wise and in urum tidum 
to wafienne ’ = 293 A 2 : Res mira, et nostris stupenda temporibus. — lb. 252.25: 
wundorlic wise baet waes 7 in baere bysne baes drihtenlican weorces swibe to 
wafienne = 309 A 1 : Mira res, atque in exemplum Dominici operis vehementer 
omnibus stupenda. 
Bede 448.8: waes he ge on wordum hluttor 7 scinende ge eac on gelaerednesse 
gewrito (sic!) ge freora ge cyriclicra to wundnenne = 321.10: nam et sermone 
nitidus, et scripturarum, ut dixi, tam liberalium quam ecclesiasticarum erat 
eruditione mirandus. 
In the foregoing examples the adjectivized infinitive is in the predicate 
nominative ; 1 in the following example it is used attributively: 
Bede 472.3: ba com . . . se leofa feeder 7 sacerd 7 mid ealle are to nemnenne 
Ecgbyrht se halga = 346.23: cum uenisset . . . Deo amabilis, et cum omni 
honorificentia nominandus pater ac sacerdos, Ecgberct. 
In the following passage it is difficult to decide whether the infinitive is 
adjectivized or substantivized: Bede 24.1: Deet sum on Norbanhymbra maegbe 
of deabe arisende sume swibe ondryslicu 7 eac to gewilnienne, ba be he geseah, 
secgende waes = 303.25: Ut quidam in prouincia Nordanhymbrorum a mortuis 
resurgens multa et tremenda et desidemnda, quae uiderat, narrauerit. Dr. 
Wiilfing, 2 1. c., II, p. 225, considers the infinitive adjectivized. 
Differentiation of the Two Infinitives. 
As already stated, out of a total of about 246 infinitives with nouns, only 
four are uninflected. The solitary example of the uninflected infinitive in the 
poems (And. 1538) may be due, as suggested by Dr. Riggert, to the peculiar 
sense of the noun modified, myne; or, as privately suggested by Professor J. W. 
Bright, it may be due to the exigencies of the meter. In the three examples 
from the prose, the lack of inflection is probably due to the remoteness of the 
infinitive from the noun that it modifies, for twice the uninflected infinitive is 
the second in a series of two infinitives the first of which is inflected, while in 
the third instance (L. 12.5) the single infinitive is appreciably removed from 
its noun. All four examples have been quoted in full at the beginning of this 
chapter. 
B. THE PASSIVE INFINITIVE. 
I have not found an example of the compound passive infinitive modifying 
a noun. 
For the Infinitive with Nouns in the other Germanic languages, see Chapter 
XVI, section xiii. 
NOTES. 
1 . The Infinitive in a Series vnth Nouns. — In the following passages we have a series 
of two infinitives the first of which is inflected, but the second is not: /Elf. Horn. II. 372 m 1 * 2 
and Napier’s Ad. to Th. 102.35 b 3 * 4 , both quoted on p. 174 above. Dr. Farrar, l. c., pp. 28 
1 For the infinitive as the substantival predicate nominative, see Chapter III, pp. 73 ff. 
