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lyften

  • adjective
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lyften, adj.
Aerial, airy
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  • Hwí is ðæt tácn on ðære lyftenan heofonan gesewen

    why is that sign [the rainbow] seen in the aërial heaven?

    • Boutr. Scrd. 21, 23
    • .
  • Hí sind genumene tó lyftente heofenan ná tó rodorlícre

    they [Epoch and Elijah] are taken to the aërial heaven, not to the etherial heaven,

    • Homl. Th. i. 308, 3
    • .
  • Lyftene gnættas

    the gnats of the air,

    • Hexam. 17
    • ;
    • Norm. 24, 30
    • .
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. luftin aëreus.
]
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  • lyften, adj.