Ge-léfed

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-léfed

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-léfed
Add: I. weakened, injured, infirm:--Gif nýten byð deád oððe geléwed si jumentum mortuum fuerit aut debilitatum, Ex. 22, 10, 14. Oð ꝥ se dǽl þæs líchoman þe ádeádode wæs and geléwed tó þǽre ǽrran hǽlo becume, Lch. ii. 284, 18. Hé gehǽlde mistlíce gebrocode men, blinde and deáfe and dumbe and mistlíce geléwede, Wlfst. 99, 4. Hér syndan þurh synleáwa sáre geléwede tó manege, 165, 26. II. of age, advanced. Take here gelýfed in Dict., and add:--Þára ðe gelýfdre yldo (geleófe yldo, ) wǽron earum quae aetate provectae erant, Bd. 3, 8; Sch. 222, 1. Gelýfdre yldo provectioris aetatis, 4, 24; Sch. 482, 12. [O. Sax. gi-lébód (of Lazarus 'ulceribus plenus.'] v. á-léfian, and cf. -lǽw, lǽweo. ge-lefed

Related words: l.

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