anhele
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Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.
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anhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be breathlessly anxious or eager for; to pant.
- 1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 49:
- All men know that we be here gathered, and with most fervent desire, they anheale, breathe, and gape for the fruit of our convocation; as our acts shall be, so they shall name us; […]
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(See the entry for “anhele”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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anhele
- breathlessly
- La maljunulo anhele supreniras la ŝtuparon.
- The old man breathlessly climbed the stairway.
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anhele
- inflection of anhelar: