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/əˈbænd/ · verb
(obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce..
Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre, And both of them men of renowmed might; Who making vantage of their civill iarre, And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre, Grew great, and got large portions of land, That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre, Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand, And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
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A band means (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce..
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Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre, And both of them men of renowmed might; Who making vantage of their civill iarre, And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre, Grew great, and got large portions of land, That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre, Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand, And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.
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