Læt

According to the Old English Dictionary:

læt

Add: I. slow, sluggish :-- Be lattre meltunge sumra metta, Lch. ii. 160, 9. Late lento, Wrt. Voc. ii. 49, 62. On óðre wísan sint tó manianne ðá ðe bióð tó late (pigri: cf. ðá sláwan 19), on óðre ðá ðe bióð tó hrade, Past. 281, 18. I a. where the matter in which slowness is shown is noted. (1) with gen., B. 1529: Dóm. 89 (in Dict.). (2) with prep., An. 46: Ll. Th. ii. 404, 20 (in Dict.). (3) with dat. infin., Past. 281, 6 : Lk. 24, 25 (in Dict.). (4) with clause, Bl. H. 43, 22 (in Dict.). II. delayed or deferred in time, late :-- Gif se biscop þá gýt lǽttra wǽre ꝥ hé inne eóde si adhuc episcopus tardius intrasset, Gr. D. 59, 18. III. advanced in point of time in the course of the day or night, late :-- Ðá seó lætre (lættre, ) tíd weóx cum hora tardior excrevisset, Gr. D. 128, 12. Hí wǽron genýdde ꝥ hí for þǽre lættran tíde (tardiori hora) wunedon læng þonne hí sceoldon, 126, 26. Oð ðá lætran tíde, 24. -læt,læt

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