Obs. Also 4–5 enfamyne. [f. EN-1 + FAMINE.]

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  1.  intr. To perish by famine.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1194. Faste fayled hem þe fode, enfaminied monie.

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  2.  trans. To cause to suffer famine; to starve. Also fig.

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138[?].  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 150. Þes ben euele fadris þat þus cruelly enfamynen here sugetis soulis.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas, II. xxiv. (1554), 60 b. When men enfamined haue nether grein ne bred.

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1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., clxxi. Within the first yere he had enfamyned the londe.

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