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to fail to perform a promise, pledge, &c.,
to be false to one's promise
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  • Hí hit eall álugon, ge wed ge áþas,

      Chr. 947; P. 112, 25.

  • Gif hwá geniéd sié tó hláfordsearwe . . . ꝥ is ryhtre tó áleóganne þonne tó gelǽstanne. Gif hé þæs weddie þe hym riht sý tó gelǽstanne and ꝥ áleóge,

      Ll. Th. i. 60, 3-7.

  • Gif hé þissa ǽnig áleóge,

      332, 23.

  • Ðæt man Gode beháte ne áleóge man ǽfre,

      Wlfst. 71, 6.

  • Deófol wyle gedón þæt wé áleógan þæt þæt wé behétan,

      38, 6.
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  • Hí áleógaþ him má þonne hí him gelǽstan

    they break more promises to them than they perform,

      Bt. 26, 1; F. 90, 18.

  • Ðú ús gehéte gebedo and wæccan, and þú hit ús áluge,

      Wlfst. 240, 17.

  • Þæt wé áleógan Gode þæt þæt wé behéton,

      301, 8.

  • Gif gé him ne álugen iówra wedd and eówre áþas

    si fidem foederis servavissent,

      Ors. 3, 8; Swt. 122, 13.
to do falsely
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  • Be ðám ðe hiora gewitessa beforan bisc̃ áleógað. Gif hwá beforan biscepe his gewitnesse and his wed áleóge,

      Ll. Th. i. 110, 9-12.

  • Ne gehát ðú nán þing tuwa; hwæt sceal hit ðé eft geháten, búton hit wǽre ǽr álogen (

    unless the first time the promise was made falsely

    ),
      Prov. K. 21.
to lie to a person (dat.),
deceive
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  • Áleáh ł álogen is unrihtwísnys heom

    mentita est iniquitas sibi,

      Ps. L. 26, 12.

  • Ðú hæfst álogen þám Hálgan Gáste,

      Hml. Th. i. 316, 27.

  • Álogen

    fallitur,

      An. Ox. 1734,
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[O. H. Ger. ar-liugan frustrare.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-leógan.” 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/38448.

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