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单词 afrayne
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afraynev.

Forms: Middle English affrayn, Middle English affrayne, Middle English affreyne, Middle English afraine, Middle English afranyd (past tense), Middle English afreyne.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: English onfrignan.
Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English onfrignan to ask ( < on- prefix + frayne v.), with reduction of the first element (see a- prefix3).Old English onfrignan is a strong verb, originally of Class III, but in its single attestation showing attraction to Class I (compare A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §741, and see discussion at frayne v.):OE Arundel Psalter xxxiv. 11 Surgentes testes iniqui que ignorabam interrogabant me : arisende cyþeras unrihte ic nesse onfrinon me. With forms in aff- compare discussion at af- prefix.
Obsolete.
transitive. To question.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)]
afraynec1380
speera1400
refraynea1450
searcha1450
questiona1470
interrogate1483
interrogue1484
demanda1513
pose1526
ferret1582
shrive1592
samen?1620
query1653
quiza1843
hackle1891
rag1908
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2146 (MED) Byfore þe Amyral þanne he goþ & bygan him fort affrayne.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. l. 274 (MED) I affrayned [c1400 Huntington HM 137 C. xix. l. 292 ich fraynede] hym fyrste fram whennes he come.
a1425 (a1396) R. Maidstone Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms (BL Add. 39574) l. 798 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 52 But euere we hope to þi goodnesse, Whanne þou schalt al þis world affreyne [a1450 Digby afreyne].
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 25624 (MED) Thus he hym gan afreynen.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxxii. 432 My father wakyd at the laste And her afranyd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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