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Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
drohtnian
- to live
- to live one's life, conduct oneself
- Old English Benedictine Rule
men ... swá micele eáðelícor and sél drohtniaþ, swá hý stíþlíce áfédde wǽron- people ... live the more readily and well the more strictly they were brought up
- to dwell
- Ælfric of Eynsham, Catholic Homilies, I.29, c. 990s
ON DECIES DÆGE þæs wælhreowan caseres. wæs se halga biscop sixtus on romana byri drohtniende- In the time of the vicious Emperor Decius, the holy bishop Sixtus was living in the city of the Romans
- Peterborough Chronicle, s.a. 1072
Hé férde tó Burch tó Sc̃e Petres mynstre and þǽr drohtnode .xii. geár- He travelled to Bury, to the monastery of St Peter, and dwelled there for twelve years
- to inhabit
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