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fand en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /fænd/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English fand, first- and third-person singular preterite of Old English findan (“to find”).

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, form-of, past) simple past of find.
    form of find
    • And lent her wary eare to understand If any puffe of breath or signe of sence shee fand 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: