Wed-lác
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wed-lác
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- wed-lác
- n. I. a pledge, security :-- Wed vel wedlác arra-bona vel arrabo, Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 7. Wedlác arrabo, 50, 31. II. in reference to marriage, wedlock, espousals :-- Wedlác wiðsacende pacta sponsalia refutans, Hpt. Gl. 498, 44. [The latter is the usual sense in Middle English :-- Under wedlac iboren, Laym. 395. Bute one ine wedlake, A. R. 206, 14. Wass soþ weddlac haldenu, Orm. 2499. I lele wedlayk born, Pr. C. 8261. Heo þat her wedlac brekeþ, Misc. 150, 105. Þei wrouȝt wedlokes aȝein goddis wille, Piers P. 9, 152. Wedlok matrimonium. Prompt. Parv. 520. Wedloke maritagium, Wulck. Gl. 595, 5.] wed-lac