lád
- noun [ feminine ]
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Nú hí nabbaþ náne láde be hyra synne
nunc excusationem non habent de peccato suo,
- Jn. Skt. 15, 22 .
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Ðætte hé náne láde ne mǽge findan ac síe súa mid his ágnum wordum gebunden
et in nulla sui defensione se exerceat, quam sententia proprii oris ligat,
- Past. 26, 3 ;
- Swt. 185, 16 .
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Ða nǽnige láde gedón ne mágon on dómes dæge ah sceolon mid deóflum in éce wíte gefeallan
those will not be able to make any defence at the day of judgment, but will have to fall with devils into everlasting punishment,
- Blickl. Homl. 57, 20 .
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Wé cwǽdon be ðám morþslyhtum ðæt man dýpte ðone áþ be þrýfealdum and myclade ðæt ordálísen ðæt hit gewege þrý pund,
- L. Ath. iv. 6 ;
- Th. i. 224, 12-14 .
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Gange hé tó ðam þrýfealdan ordále; and ofgá man ðæt þrýfealde ordál ðus: nime fífe and beó hine sylfa syxta,
- L. C. S. 30 ;
- Th. i. 394, 3-5: 44 ;
- Th. i. 402, 7 .
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The term 'lád,' it will be seen from the following passages, does not, as Schmid observes,
occur in the laws before Ethelred's time, canne and andsæc
being used previously :
-- Gyf mon ðone hláford teó ... nime him fíf þegnas tó and beó him sylf syxta and ládie hine ðæs. And gif seó lád forþcume beó hé ðæs weres wyrðe
if the lord be accused ... let him take to himself five thanes, and be himself the sixth, and clear himself of the charge. And if he be successful in clearing himself, let him be entitled to the 'wer,'
- L. Eth. i. 1 ;
- Th. i. 282, 7 :
- L. C. S. 30 ;
- Th. i. 394, 22 .
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Gif him seó lád byrste
if the attempt to clear himself fail,
- L. Eth. i. 1 ;
- Th. i. 282, 14 :
- L. C. S. 8 ;
- Th. i. 380, 21 :
- 31 ;
- Th. i. 396, 5 .
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Gif lád forberste,
- 54 ;
- Th. i. 406, 10 .
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Ðeáh lád teorie,
- L. O. D. 4 ;
- Th. i. 354, 14 :
- 6 ;
- Th. i. 354, 31 .
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Ne stent nán óðer lád æt tihtlan búte ordál betweox Wealan and Englan búte man þafian wille
no other method of clearing a man upon accusation is valid between Welsh and English but the ordeal, unless it be permitted,
- 2 ;
- Th. i. 354, 1 .
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Láde wyrðe beón
to be entitled to clear one's self (by oath or by ordeal),
- L. C. S. 20 ;
- Th. i. 386, 21 .
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Sý ǽlc getrýwa man ðe tihtbysig nǽre and náðor ne burste ne áþ ne ordál ánfealdre láde wyrðe
let every true man that has not previously been accused, and in whose case neither oath nor ordeal has failed, be entitled to single purgation,
- 22 ;
- Th. i. 388, 11 .
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Dúnstan gedémde ðæt se mæssepreóst nǽre, gif hé wíf hæfde, ǽnigre óðre láde wyrðe, bútan eallswá lǽwede sceolde ðe efenboren wǽre, gif man mid tihtlan ðæne beléde,
- L. Edg. C. 60, note ;
- Th. ii. 256, 38 .
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Gebyreþ ðæt mon óðrum riht wyrce ge at láde ge æt ǽlcre sprǽce ðe him betweox biþ
it is proper for men to do right to one another both as regards clearing themselves of charges and as regards any suits that there are between them,
- L. O. D. 2 ;
- Th. i. 352, 17 .
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Gif æt láde mistíde déme se bisceop
if the attempt to clear himself miscarry, let the bishop pass sentence,
- L. C. S. 57 ;
- Th. i. 406, 27 .
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Geládige hine mid fulre láde,
- 42 ;
- Th. i, 400, 25 .
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Geládige swá mid þrýfealdre swá mid ánfealdre láde be ðam ðe seó dǽd sí,
- L. C. E. 5 ;
- Th. i. 364, 2 :
- L. Eth. ix. 27 ;
- Th. i. 846, 15 .
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Ládige hine mid þrýfealdre láde,
- L. C. S. 8 ;
- Th. i. 380, 20 :
- 48 ;
- Th. i. 404, 3 .
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Ofgá man ánfealde láde mid ánfealdan foráþe and þrýfealde láde mid þrýfealdan foráþe
[the Latin version has the following in explanation :--Qui autem conquirere debet simplicem purgationem, simplici sacramento hoc faciat, hoc est, accipiat duos et sit ipse tertius, et sic jurando conquirat. Triplex vero juramentum sic conquiratur; accipiat quinque et ipse sit sextus, et sic jurando acquirat triplex judicium aut triplex juramentum']
,- 22 ;
- Th. i. 388, 14 .
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Se geréfa namige ða láde
let the reeve name the compurgators,
- L. Eth. iii. 13 ;
- Th. i. 298, 1 .
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Se ðe ofer ðæt láde geþafie oððe se ðe hý sylle gilde vi healfmarc
he that admits, or he that offers, purgation after that, shall pay six half-marks,
- Th. i. 298, 7.
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Hér swutelaþ an (ðissum gewrite) ðæt Godwine hæfþ gelǽd fulle láde æt ðan unrihtwífe ðe Leófgár bisceop hine tihte and ðæt wæs lád æt Licitfelda
in this writing is declared that Godwine has fully cleared himself of the charge in the matter of the woman about whom bishop Leofgar accused him: and he cleared himself at Lichfield,
- Chart. Th. 373, 31.
Bosworth, Joseph. “lád.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/20891.
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