fleme
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Old English flīema (“fugitive, exile, outlaw”).
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English flemen, from Old English flȳman, flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight”).
Alternative forms
- fleem
Verb
fleme (third-person singular simple present flemes, present participle fleming, simple past and past participle flemed)
- (obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.
- 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxviij:
- Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.
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Middle English
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