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lǽwede

  • adjective
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lǽwede, adj.
Lay, laic, not learned, not of the church; by gradual change of meaning it has become the later lewd
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  • Lǽwede man

    laicus,

    • Wt. Voc. 72, 8
    • .
  • Ðara manna sum wæs bescoren preóst sum wæs lǽwede sum wæs wífmon

    e quibus hominibus quidam erat adtonsus ut clericus,quidam laicus, quædam femina,

    • Bd. 5, 12
    • ;
    • S. 628, 35
    • .
  • Hí underféngon ða dígelnyssa ðære láre ðe ðæt lǽwede folc undergitan ne mihte

    they [the apostles] received the mysteries of the doctrine that the unlearned people could not understand,

    • Homl. Th. i. 190, 13
    • .
  • Búton ða láreówas screádian symle ða leahtras þurh heora láre áweg ne biþ ðæt lǽwede folc wæstmbǽre on gódum weorcum,

    • ii. 74, 17.
  • Hé munuclíce leofode betwux ðam lǽwedan folce

    he lived as a monk among laymen,

    • 97, 67
    • .
  • Sum wer wæs on lǽwedum háde

    fuit vir in laico habitu,

    • Bd. 5, 13
    • ;
    • S. 632, 7
    • .
  • Ðeáh ðe hé ðá gyt on lǽwedum háde beán sceolde ... hé munuclífe gyta swíðor lifde ðonne ðonne lǽwedes mannes,

    • Blickl. Homl. 213, 9-11
    • .
  • Ðæt hit nǽfre on lǽdu hand ne wende

    that it should never pass to a lay hand,

    • Chart. Th. 166, 21.
  • Ealle ge bescorene ge lǽwede,

    • Bd. 3, 5
    • ;
    • S. 526, 36
    • :
    • 5, 7
    • ;
    • S. 621, 14
    • .
  • Ða ðe mid him wǽron swíðust lǽwde

    qui cum ipso erant, maxime laici,

    • 5, 6
    • ;
    • S. 618, 42
    • .
  • Ða witan ealle ge hádode ge lǽwede

    all the witan both churchmen and laymen,

    • Chr. 1014
    • ;
    • Erl. 150, 4
    • .
  • Ne úre nǽnig his líf ne fadode swá swá hé scolde, ne gehádode regollíce ne lǽwede lahlíce,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 107, 78
    • .
  • þurh gelǽredra regolbryce and þurh lǽwedra lahbryce

    through breach of [monastic] rule by the learned and breach of law by the unlearned,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 111, 199
    • .
Etymology
[In the later English the lewed are contrasted with the lered,
e.g. Orm. ȝa læwedd follc, ȝa læredd;
and Robert Manning writes 'not for þe lerid bot for the lewed
:
Prompt. Parv. lewde illitteratus, inscius, ignarus, laicus.
]
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