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a-tellan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-tellan, p. -tealde, pl. -tealdon ; pp. -teald ; v. trans. [a, tellan]
To tell out, enumerate, reckon, explain, interpret; dinumerare, numerare, interpretari
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  • Hwylc wát ánweald yrres ðínes, and for ege ðínum graman ðínum atellan

    quis novit potestatem iræ tuæ, et pro timore tuo iram tuam dinumerare?

    • Ps. Spl. C. 89, 13
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  • Gif ðú nú atellan wilt ealle ða bliþnessa wið ðám unrótnessum

    if thou wilt now reckon all the enjoyments against the sorrows,

    • Bt. 8 ; Fox 24, 21, note 6
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  • Wit gesáwon swefen, ac wyt nyton hwá hyt unc atelle

    nos duo somnium vidimus, et non est qui interpretetur nobis duobus,

    • Gen. 40, 8
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v.  a-telan.
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