▪ I. † fleme, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 fl{iacu}ema, fléma, fl{yacu}ma, 2–4 fleme, 3 flæme.
[OE. fl{iacu}ema (:—earlier *fléamja), f. fléam: see next.]
A fugitive, exile, outlaw.
| a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1020 (Gr.) Þu flema scealt widlast wrecan. c 1000 ælfric Gen. iv. 12 Þu..bist flyma ᵹeond ealle eorþan. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 157 We wunieð here alse fleme. c 1205 Lay. 5952 Alle þe flæmen þe iflowe buð of Rome. c 1305 St. Dunstan 101 in E.E.P. (1862) 37 He drof him out of Engelond: and let him grede fleme. |
▪ II. † fleme, n.2 Obs.
Forms: 1 fléam, 3 flem, (vlem), fleom, (flæm, fleam), 3–4 fleme.
[OE. fléam str. masc.:—OTeut. type *þlauhmo-, f. þlauh- ablaut-var. of þleuh- to flee.]
Flight; exile.
| Beowulf 2889 (Gr.) Syððan æðelingas..ᵹefricᵹean fleam eowerne. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 149 We ben here alle on fleme. c 1205 Lay. 6407 He turnede to fleme. Ibid. 24070 Ofte he ulem makede. c 1300 K. Alis. 4341 So they hadde take fleme. |
▪ III. † fleme, v. Obs. From 16th c. chiefly Sc.
Forms: 1 fl{iacu}eman, fléman, fl{yacu}man, 3 flæmen, fleman, -en, fleomen, Orm. flemmenn, south. vlemen, 4–5 flem, 4–7 fleeme, fleme, (4 flemme, flemon, 7 fleame).
[OE. fl{iacu}eman (:—earlier *fléamjan), f. fléam: see prec. Cf. ON. flǽma.]
1. trans. To cause to flee, put to flight; to drive away, drive out, chase; hence, to banish, exile; rarely, to reject (a proposal). Also, to fleme away, fleme out, fleme to flight. a. simply.
| a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 2115 (Gr.) Ac hie god flymde. c 1200 Ormin 8242 Augustuss..þatt flemmde himm ut. a 1300 Cursor M. 29022 (Cott.) Fasting flemes flexsli sakes. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 328 Þo þat fled, þei flemed als þe kynges felons. c 1400 Destr. Troy 12377 And I..Thus am flemyt to flight thurgh his false caste. c 1425 Festivals of Ch. 183 in Leg. Rood (1871) 216 He will not flyte, But flemon all þi foos away. a 1450 Le Morte Arth. 2673 He were a fole..So feyr forwardys for to fleme. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) v. xiv. 215/1 God sayd to Caym..Thou shalt be wanderynge & flemed upon erth. 1553 Kennedy Comp. Tract. in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 152 Geve the Kirk had the auld ancient libertie, than sulde all heresies be flemit. 1578 Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 171 They..flemit them full sair. 16.. Merline 1624 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 472 The heyres that thou didst fleame With wrong out of the realme. 1814 Scott Wav. ix, ‘He help'd Miss Rose when she was flemit with the Laird of Killancureit's new English bull.’ |
b. Const. from, of (= out of), out of; rarely with ellipsis of prep.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 87 Þis laȝe [circumcisio] flemeð þe fule gost ut of þe child. c 1205 Lay. 23447 Þat he þa æð mihte wið Arðure uihte and ulemen of londe. 1352 Minot Halidon-Hyll vi, The land that thai war flemid fra. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2788 Lawe is nye flemede out of this contree. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vi. ccxiii. 229 Algarus was accused by malyce, and flemyd the lande. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. vi. 47 Banist and flemyt of my native land. 16.. Marline 426 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 435 Many another doughtye Man that hee had fleemed out of the Land. |
2. intr. To flee, run away. rare—1.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 3348 He is the furste with sweord that remith; Thou art the furste with hors that flemeth. |
Hence flemed ppl. a.; ˈfleming vbl. n. Also ˈflemer, one who puts to flight.
| c 1205 Lay. 7733 Alle eowre flemede men. a 1300 Cursor M. 18626 (Gött.) Lang might adam thinc þe space Of fleming fra þat lauerd face. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iii. 884 Dulcarnon clepid is ‘flemyng of wrecchis’. c 1386 ― Man of Law's T. 362 Flemer of feendes. 13.. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxiii. 483 Went forþ A-pilgrimage And þe flemed visyted. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. vi. 284/1 He called them theues & outlawes & flemyd men. 15.. Ragman Roll 169 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 76 Constant in vertu, flemer of malyce. |