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▪ I. † enˈfamine, n. Obs.
[f. next vb.]
Famine, starvation.
c1450Lonelich Grail xii. 352 [The castle] myhte neuere i-wonnë be But only thorwgh enfamyne.
▪ II. † enˈfamine, v. Obs.
Also 4–5 enfamyne.
[f. en-1 + famine n.]
1. intr. To perish by famine.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1194 Faste fayled hem þe fode, enfaminied monie.
2. trans. To cause to suffer famine; to starve. Also fig.
138.Wyclif Wks. (1880) 150 Þes ben euele fadris þat þus cruelly enfamynen here sugetis soulis. c1430Lydg. Bochas ii. xxiv. (1554) 60 b, When men enfamined haue nether grein ne bred. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. clxxi, Within the first yere he had enfamyned the londe. |