aflyghte ( gh mute)

i. [A FLIGHT.] *a-fō', v.t. [AFONGE.] * a-foild', pa. par. [AFOILE.] * a-foil'e (pa. par. afoild ), v.t. [Α.Ν.] Το foil, to cast down. "Al to michel thou art afoild, Now the blod it is acoild." Gy of Warwike, p. 20. *a-fond'e, v.t. [A.S. afandian, afandigean = IMG:content-0249.png:[ocr errors] to prove, to try.] To prove, to try. "And nys non ned wyth foule handlynge, Other other afondeth." W. de Shoreham. a-fonge, af föng, * a-fenge, *ă-fō', a-ongeng receive eng an gen and afeng = received, and afchth = receives.] Το take, to receive, to undertake. "And such myght wan yt so ys, then myght ther thom afonge, That thou myght perauntre Rome wynne ar come o'ght longe. Robt. Glouc. ( Hearne , ed. 1724, 1. 91.) "For nought that y might afo . Y nil betray therl, Tirri." Gy of Warwike, p. 199. ta-foot, *a-foote, a-fote, * a fõte, *a-vote, a-uote, adv . [Eng. a = on; foot; A.S. fot, fet.] IMG:content-0250.png:[blocks in formation] ta-före-go-ing, particip. adj. [Eng. afore; going.] Going before. "All other nouns ending in -lees do follow the general rule a foregoing."-Lilly: Grammar. *a-före-hand, adv. & a. [Eng. afore; suff. hand.] 1. As adverb: Beforehand, by a previous provision. she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying."- Mark xiv. 8. 2. As adjective: Provided, prepared, previously fitted, ready. "For it will be said, that in the former times whereof we have spoken, Spain was not so i mighty as now it is; and England, on the other side, was more aforehand in all matters of power."-Bacon: Consid. on War with Spain . †a-före-men-tioned, particip, adj. [Eng. afore; mentioned.] Before-mentioned. "Now they were come to the place where the afore mentioned battle was fought."- Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progre , pt. ii. *a-för-en, prep. & adv. [AFORE.] a-före'-named, particip. adj. [Eng. afors; named.] Before-named. "Imitate something of circular form, in which, as in all other a forenamed proportions, you shall help yourself by the diameter."-Peacham on Drawing. aforesaid (a-för-sed), particip. adj. [Eng. ajore; said.] Said before. "It need not go for repetition, if we resume again that which we said in the aforesaid experiment."Bacon: Natural History, § 771. aforethought (a-för-thât), particip . adj. [Eng. afore ; thought .] Thought before, entertained in the mind before, premeditated. Used especially in the legal phrase, "malice aforethought," the existence or absence of which is inquired into when one person takes another's life. If the one kills the other from malice aforethought , then the crime is murder. If malice aforethought is absent, it is but homicide or manslaughter. Murder is therefore now thus defined, or rather described, by Sir Edward Coke, "When a person of sound memory and discretion, unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either expre or implied." ( Black stone : Com ment., bk. iv., ch. 14.) a-före'-time, * a-före'-tyme, adv. & s. [O. Eng. afore; Eng. time.] 1. As adverb : Beforetime, at a former time, previously. "Thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there."- Isa . lii. 4. 2. As substantive: The previous period. fills up the blank of the aforetime the aforetime in a manner at once plausible and impre ive."-Grote: Hist. of Greece, pt. i., ch. i. a-for-gāyn', prep. [A.S. ofer = over; and gean, agen against; or Scotch for against.] Opposite to. ( Scotch.) "Aforgayn the schippes ay As thai sailyt, thai held thaer way." Barbour, xvi. 555, MSS . (James on.) more then is the angle BDC greater than the angle BCD, the use of the words much more implies that the à fort i or i argument is used. a-for-ward, adv. [Eng. a; forward.] In front, in advance. "Mid thre hondred knyghtes, a duk, that het Siward, A ailede Corineus hymself a forward ." Robert of Gloucester, p. 17. *a-för-yene, prep . & adv . [AFORE.] *a-fo'te, adv . [AFOOT.] *a-fou'e, s . [Avow.] Avowal. "Jake seyde, Y make afoue , Y am as reddy as thow." The Frere & the Boy, 66.