Or-hlyte

Old English Dictionary Entry

Or-hlyte

Old English Dictionary Entry

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1 or-hlyte

adj. Having no share of, not participating in, free from, without :-- Orhlyte oððe bedǽled expers, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 43; Som. 13, I: 47; Som. 48, 44. Orhlita exsors, Wrt. Voc. i. 51, 48. Wá ðære sáwle ðe orhlyte hyre lif ádríhþ ðæra háligra mihta. Homl. Th. i. 346, 25. Orhlyte ýdeles gylpes, ii. 286, 28. Ne bist ðú orhlyte eallunge ðæra wítena you shall not altogether escape those torments, 310, 27. Ðæt gé eallunge ðæs andgites orhlyte ne sýn, 188, 28. Eádiges orhlytte, Andr. Kmbl. 1359; An. 680. [O. H. Ger. ur-hlozi, -hlozzo exsors.] Cf. wan-hlyte. or-hlyte

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ᚩᚱ-ᚻᛚᚣᛏᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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