Á-wlǽtan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

á-wlǽtan

Add: To make loathsome, disfigure, pollute. (1) physical:--Áwlǽtende deturpans, i. foedans (elephantino tabo), An. Ox. 3586. Fúlíce áwlǽt turpiter deformatur (splendida argenti species), 449. Áwlǽtte deformatos (neuorum maculis), 650. Hine æt se cancer and his weleras wǽron áwlǽtte mid ealle, Hml. S. 6, 285. (2) moral:--Ic mid sweartum synnum míne sáwle áwlǽtte, Angl. xiii. 113, 53. Ðás gyltas ne magon úre sáwle ofsleán, ac hí magon hí áwlǽtan, Hml. Th. ii. 590, 29. Áwlǽttre pollutae, oblitae, Germ. 397, 466. a-wlætan