pa. pple. Obs. [Y- 4.] Found.

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c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xi. (Schipper), 235/1. Þa his ban ʓefunden & ʓemeted wæron & to þære cyricean ʓelædde.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 35. Oðer he heo wat ðurh þet he heo dude him seolf, oðer he heo hafð i-escad, oðer hafð ifunden on boke.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 705. Þe Nihtegale … hedde onswere god ifunde.

4

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 333. Aftirward his body and þe body of his wif Gwenvere were i-founde [MS. γ yvounde].

5

1422.  Yonge, trans. Secr. Secr., 160. I haue y-founde a man aftyr myn herte.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, XVII. vii. 699. Ye be wel y fonde said sir Bors.

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1522.  World & Child, A v b. So fell a fyghter in a felde was there neuer yfounde.

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