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a-lefan

  • verb [ weak ]
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a-lefan, to become weak.
Substitute: á-léfian, -léwian; p. ode, ede; p. od, ed To mate weak, sick, to maim, lame, cripple.
of living creatures
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  • Antecríst áléuað and geuntrumað ðá hálan,

      Hml. Th. i. 4, 22.
  • Hé ealle ðá gehǽlde þe ðá drýmen áléfedon, ii. 472, 16.

  • Dóð þæt hí ne magon úre tungan gehremman ne ús áléfian,

      488, 6.
  • Gif hwá áléfed wǽre oððe limleás, i. 236, 29.

  • Þæt þæt áléfed wæs, þæt ic gehǽle,

      242, 16.

  • Áléfed

    paralysed,

    ii.
      546, 30.

  • Þæt wanhál wæs and áléwed (álýfed, v. l.) quod debile erat, R. Ben. 51, 16. ꝥ wé fæston swá ꝥ úre líchama áléfed ne wurðe

    so that our body be not injured,

      Hml. S. 13, 104.

  • Wearð his cneów mid heardum geswelle áléfed,

      Hml. Th. ii. 134, 24.

  • Ðá þe ðurh þæs dracan blǽde áléfode wǽron,

      294, 31.

  • Þreó hund geára ylpas libbað, gif hí áléfede ne beóð,

      Hml. S. 25, 570.

  • Wundru hé worhte on áléfedum mannum,

      Hml. A. 10, 255.

  • Gegadera ðearfan and áléfede (

    pauperes ac debiles,

      Lk. 14, 21), Hml. Th. ii. 374, 27.

  • Ðá áléfedan men (

    men who had been practised on by wizards

    ),
      486, 19.
of an inanimate object
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  • Wǽron þǽre hlǽddre stapas áléfede on ǽr,

      Hml. S. 31, 602.
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v. léf.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “a-lefan.” 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/38442.

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