back-"formate" (was: deigned; lorded; incoming)

[Charles Doyle]

Or perhaps 'Daned'?

--Charlie
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>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:44:06 -0500
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>At 8:21 PM -0800 1/13/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>>In tonight's Sci-Fi Channel take on Beowulf (_Grendel_ [Nick Lyon, 2007]), Hrothgar says, "The gods have deigned that my land be cursed."  That means "ordained."

>
>Ah, then it's not _deigned_, it's _'dained_ .
>>
>LH

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