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on-lísan

  • verb [ weak ]
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to unloose (real or metaphorical bonds)
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  • Ðæt bearn benda onlýseþ,

      Exon. Th. 5, 12; Cri. 68.
  • Hé ða tungan onlýsde,

      Blickl. Homl. 167, 10.
  • Hire bendas wǽron onlýsede,

      89, 25.
  • Onlýsde,

      87, 36.
to release, deliver, liberate
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  • Mín líf of ðære écean forwyrde ðú onlýsdest,

      89, 4.
  • Cyning onlésde (

    solvit

    ) hine,
      Ps. Surt. 104, 20.
  • Tó onliésanne ða gehæftan on helle,

      Past. 58; Swt. 443, 10.
  • Siððan seó sáwl of ðam carcerne ðæs líchoman onliésed biþ,

      Bt. 18, 4; Fox 68, 15.
  • Onlésed, unsǽled

    desolutus, i. liberatus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 29: 138, 50.
  • Swá hwylcne swá hé on eorþan álýsde, ðæt se wǽre on heofonum onlýsed,

      Blickl. Homl. 49, 18.
  • Fram swá myclum cwylmnessum onlýsed beón,

      Bd. 4, 9; S. 577, 10: 5, 19; S. 639, 42.
  • Onlýsed ðý líchaman

    solutus corpore,

      3, 19; S. 548, 29.
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v.  on-lésan on-liésan.
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