Oflǽte

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - oflǽte

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-láte, -léte, an;

oflǽte
f. I. an oblation, offering :-- Oflǽtan oblationem, Ps. Spl. C. 39, 9. Oflátan oblationes, Ps. Surt. 50, 21. II. a sacramental wafer :-- Eal ðæt tó húsle gebirige, ðæt is, clǽne ofléte, clǽne wín, and clǽne wæter, L. Edg. C. 39; Th. ii. 252, 13. Behealde hé ðæt his oflétan ne beón ealdbacene, L. Ælfc. C. 36; Th. ii. 360, 26. Benedictus ásende áne ofelétan, and hét mid ðære mæssian, Homl. Th. ii. 174, 26. III. a wafer like the sacramental wafer :-- Man sceal niman . vii. lytle oflǽtan swylce man mid ofraþ, Lchdm. iii. 42, 3. [Erest þat husel beð ouelete and win, O. E. Homl. ii. 97, 33. Icel. obláta, oblát a sacramental wafer : O. H. Ger. obláta oblatio: Ger. oblate wafer. From Mid. Lat. oblāta.] of-læte,oflæte
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