Ge-lettan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-lettan

Add: I. to hinder a person from going where he intends, to stop:--Hé wolde tó his méder . . . ac Godwine hine gelette, Chr. 1036; P. 158, 22. Flódwylm ne mæg manna ǽnigne ofer Meotudes ést gelettan, An. 518. Hé wearð þurh weder gelet, Chr. 1097; P. 233, 17. Hé him swá gelettum and swá genýddum hwæthugu getǽse gedyde ei commodum coacto renitentique dedit, Gr. D. 39, 26. Se cyng geáxode ꝥ his feónd gelætte wǽron, and ne mihten ná geforðian heora fare, Chr. 1085; P. 216, 7. I a. to hinder a person from a journey (gen.):--Ne gelette ús þæs síðes se feónd, Wlfst. 252, 16. I b. the object a personification:--Forþum oð oreldo gód weorc hine (death) hwílum gelettað, Bt. 41, 2; S. 142, 19. II. to hinder a person from acting, impede:--Ðonne ðæt flǽsc bið gelett (-let, ) mid sumum broce, Past. 257, 1. II a. to keep a person from doing something (gen.):--Hit hine ðára synna gelett ðe hé dón wolde, Past. 257, 22. Hine ne meahte Meotudes willan longað gelettan, Gú. 330. III. to hinder a person from progressing or developing:--Hý bodedon on Róme Crístendóm, ac se deófles man hý gedrehte and þæt folc gelette wundorlíce swýðe, Wlfst. 98, 18. IV. to hinder the movement of a material object:--Þá slóh se cwellere mid þám swurde hire tó, ac seó hálige þrynnys ꝥ swurd gelette, Hml. S. 12, 223. V. to hinder, impede action, movement, &c.:--Gelet tricaverit (si lethi somnus palpebrarum convolatus non tricauerit), An. Ox. 8, 414. Gelettan praepedire (integritatis castimoniam), 3949. Þæt deófol wyle ǽlces mannes geþanc, gyf hé mæg, swýðe gelettan, Wlfst. 101, 15. Ic nolde þurh gielpcwide gǽstes mínes frófre gelettan, Gú. 1210. Ne dorston þá gelettan leng wuldorcyninges word they durst not longer delay to carry out God's command, An. 801. Hys sýðfæt wæs geletted, Shrn. 98, 30. V a. to prove a stumbling-block to, to offend:--Gelette offenderet (ne pudibunda nuditas castos offenderet obtutus), An. Ox. 3675. [Goth. ga-latjan: O. Sax. gi-lettian: O. H. Ger. ge-lezzen retardare.] ge-lettan

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