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lícettan

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absolute.
to dissemble, pretend, be hypocritical
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  • Swá bióð ðá ðe hira gód eówiað beforum monnum and hira yfel helað oninnan him selfum: hí lícettað, and woldon lícian for manna eágum útane búton gódum weorcum innane

    vitiorum mala inius contegunt, humanis vero oculis quorumdam demonstratione operum de solo foris justitiae colore blandiuntur,

      Past. 449, 10.
  • Cóm Nathan tó cídanne Dáuide, and lícette, suelce hé ymb sumes ðearfan ryht sprǽce, 185, 18. (l a) of specen :-- Mid þý hé geswiperum múðe lícetende ǽrende wrehte

    cum simulatam legationem ore astuto uolueret,

      Bd. 2, 9 ; Sch. 146, 25.
to carry favour with (?)
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  • Hé him sǽde ꝥ hé ofslóge Saul, and wolde mid þǽre leásunge lícettan wið Dáuid,

      Hml. S. 12, 250.
to feign something,
with acc. , to present a false appearance of aquality, property, &c.
feign humility, & c.
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  • Hé lícet mildheortnesse ðǽr ðǽr nán ne bið,

      Past. 220. 23.
  • Tó ðǽm móde ðe innan bið gnornigende and útan lícet geðyld

    menti interius dolenti, et sanctam se exterius per patientiam demonstranti,

      225, 11.
  • Se góda cræft ðe hé ðǽr lícette

    virtus oslensa,

      222, 3.
  • Swelce hé lícette eáðmétto, and doo ðeáh for gilpe. 51, 3.
with acc. and complementary adj.
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  • Hí lícettad hie unscyldge

    they present an appearance of innocence; se

    hominibus, quod iniqui sunt, tegunt,
      Past. 439, 20.
with a clause, to give to understand what is not the case,
to pretend that
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  • Mid þǽre híwunga ðe hió lícet ꝥ hió sié gód,

      Bt. 20; F. 72, l.
    Hié lícettað ðæt hié ðæt ðón ðurh eáðmódnesse, Past. 302, 8: 9: 427, 17.
  • Hé lícette ꝥ hé úþwita wǽre. Bt. 18, 4 ; F. 68, l : Met. 26, 36 : Past. 121, 17. (3 a) not to refrain from showing what is the case, to profess that :-- Hit is micel sceand gif wé nyllad lícittan (-ettan, v. l.) ðæt wé sién ðæt wé sindon

    nimis turpe est non imilari, quod sumus,

      Past. 233,
with dat.
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  • Hé lícett (lícet,

    v. l.

    ) wið hié má geférrǽdenne ðóme ealdordonne.
      Past. 121, 22.
to produce an unreal appearance
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  • Híwunge híwedan, líccettan

    scenam scematizarunt,

      An. Ox. 4061.
to pretend, bring a false charge
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  • Líccitan insimulare. An. Ox. 2944. IV a. to make a false claim :-- Hí lícettaþ ꝥ hí gelǽstan magon

    they pretend to be able do what they cannot,

      Bt. 26, l; F. 90, 16.
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