Geleáf-hlystend
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geleáf-hlystend
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- geleáf-hlystend
- Substitute: One who is being instructed in the faith before baptism, a catechumen, a candidate for baptism:--Geleáfhlystendes catacumini, i. audientis, An. Ox, 2207. Geleáfhlystende competences ( = baptismi candidati, qui baptismum postulabant, Migne), An. Ox. 7, 202: 8, 158. Geleáfhlystendra competentium (catechumenorum, auditorum, Hpt. Gl. 458, 7. v. leáf-hlystend. geleaf-hlystend,ge-leafhlystend