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wed-lác

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
wed-lác, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§608;
a pledge, security
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  • Wed vel wedlác arra*-*bona vel

    arrabo,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 7.
  • Wedlác

    arrabo,

      50, 31.
in reference to marriage, v. weddian, II, wedlock, espousals
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  • Wedlác wiðsacende

    pacta sponsalia refutans,

      Hpt. Gl. 498, 44.
Etymology
[The latter is the usual sense in Middle English Under wedlac iboren, Laym. 395. Bute one ine wedlake,
    A. R. 206, 14.
Wass soþ weddlac haldenu,
    Orm. 2499.
I lele wedlayk born,
    Pr. C. 8261.
Heo þat her wedlac brekeþ,
    Misc. 150, 105.
Þei wrouȝt wedlokes aȝein goddis wille, Piers P. 9, 152. Wedlok matrimonium.
    Prompt. Parv. 520.
Wedloke maritagium,
    Wulck. Gl. 595, 5.
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  • wed-lác, n.