Wǽdlian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wǽdlian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wǽdlian
p. ode. I. to be poor, indigent, needy, in want :-- Ic wǽdlige egeo, Ælfc. Gr. 26, 2; Zup. 154, 15. Hé wédlaþ egebit, Kent. Gl. 835. Se ðe wédlat qui indiget, 333. Ða welegan wǽdledon (wéðladon, Ps. Surt.) and eodon biddende divites eguerunt, Ps. Th. 33, 10. Beóð welige hwílwendlíce, ðæt gé écelíce wǽdlion, Homl. Th. i. 64, 16. Ðá wurdon hí dreórige on móde, ðæt hí wǽdligende on ánum wáclícum wǽfelse férdon, 62, 28. I a. to be in want of something, to lack, not to have enough :-- Leádes ða men wǽdliaþ, and goldes genihtsumiaþ plumbo egent, auro habundant, Nar. 31, 4. Weðliende hláf egens panem, Ps. Surt. 36, 25. II. to beg :-- Se ðe sæt and wǽdlode qui sedebat et mendicabat, Jn. Skt. 9, 8. Mé sceamaþ ðæt ic wǽdlige mendicare erubesco, Lk. Skt. 16, 3. Hí wǽdlian (wéðlien, Ps. Surt.) mendicent, Ps. Spl. 108, 9. Sum blind man sæt wið ðæne weg wǽdligende (mendicans), Lk. Skt. 18, 35; Wǽdliende, Blickl. Homl. 17, 31, 34. Hé wédlat mendicabit, Kent. Gl. 731. [Þe king wæilien (wædlien? to go as a beggar) agon wide ȝeon þas þeoden, Laym. 28880. O. H. Ger. wádalón evagari.] wædlian
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