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  • Ic gelæcce

    arripio,

      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 275, 12.
without sense of violence.
to take, take hold of, catch
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  • Þá árás hé and gelæhte hine be þám swuran, and cyste and clypte,

      Hml. S. 30,335.
to take, catch fish, &c.
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  • On ðám ǽrran fixnoðe wurdon swá fela gelæhte þæt þæt net tóbærst . . . On ðám æftran fixnoðe wurdon gelæhte micele and manega fixas, and þæt net áþolode,

      Hml. Th. ii. 290, 16-21.
to take, pick up food
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  • Þá hwelpas gelæccað þá cruman (

    catelli edunt de micis,

      Mt. 15, 27), Hml. Th. ii. 50, 31.
to take as a possession,
get, receive
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  • Judas ðá gelæhte þæs Appollonies swurd . . . and hé wann mid þám on ǽlcum gefeohte,

      Hml. S. 25, 295.
  • Ðú and Æðelmǽr swylcera gewrita mé bǽdon, and of handum gelæhton, p. 4, 39.

  • Hú hí mihton ðám cásere gecwéman ꝥ hí sumne scætt æt him gelæhton,

      23, 55.

  • Ne mihte hyra ǽlc ánne bitan of ðám gelæccan (

    non sufficiant ut unusquisque modicum quid accipiat,

      Jn. 6, 7), Hml. Th. i. 182, 11.
to take a person preparatory to action,
to take and do something
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  • Gelahte hine of ðǽm folce sundurlíce,

      Mk. L. 7, 33.

  • Gelæhte hine Petrus ongann geðreádtaige hine,

      8, 32.

  • Se Hǽlend gelahte cnæht sette hine néh him,

      Lk. L. 9, 47.

  • Gehlahte,

      14, 4.

  • Gelahte se groefa ðone Hǽlend and geswanng,

      Jn. L. R. 19, 1.
with the idea of violence or haste.
to take a person,
seize, apprehend, capture
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  • Nǽnig monn hine gelahte (

    apprehendit

    ),
      Jn. L. R. 8, 20.

  • Embehtmenn geféngon ł gelahton (

    comprehenderunt

    ) ðone
      Hǽlend, 18, 12.

  • Hí ús gegripon ł gelahton him

    nos diripiebant sibi,

      Ps. L. 43, 11.

  • Þæt folc his cépte and hine gelæhton,

      Hml. Th. ii. 506, 7.

  • Hé wolde Wulnóð gelæccan cucene oððe deádne

    take him alive or dead,

      Chr. 1009; P. 138, note 9.

  • Ósréd gelæht wæs and ofslagen,

      792; P. 55, 29.

  • Daniel se wítega wearð gelæht,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 9, 38.

  • Wurdon sume his men gelæhte of Frencyscan mannan, Chr. 1075; P. 210, 15. (1 a)

    to seize

    with an implement :-- Hí woldon mé gelæccan mid heora tangum,
      Hml. Th. ii. 350, 34.
to take from,
rescue
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  • Dauid gelæhte þæt scép of ðám deórum,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 24.
to lay hold of a person who struggles
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  • Hé feóll tó þǽre eorðan mid egeslicum anginne, and hine gelæhton ðe ðár néh wǽron,

      Chr. 1042; P. 162, 14.
of an animal,
to take, seize
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  • Cymð se yfela and gelæhð (

    rapit

    ) hit,
      Hml. Th. ii. 90, 24.

  • Án wulf gelæhte mínne bróðor,

      Hml. S. 30, 330.

  • Gelecce (

    rapiat

    ) swá swá leó,
      Ps. L. 7, 3.
to seize, lay hands on; snatch up
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  • Gelæhton þá weardmenn his wealdleðer fæste, þæt hé mid fleáme ne burste,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 18, 14.

  • Gif hwilc man ꝥ wǽpn gelæcce and hwylcne hearm þǽr mid gewyrce,

      Ll. Th. i. 418, 8.

  • Ne nán ne gedyrstlǽce þæt hé fǽrlíce bóc gelæcce (

    arripiat

    ), and þǽr bútan foresceáwunge onginne tó rǽdenne,
      R. Ben. 62, 5.
to obtain by force
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  • Hé gelæcð ðurh strece þæt heofenlice ríce,

      Hml. Th. i. 360, 9.
to take, carry off
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  • Hé fela goldhordas forð mid him gelæhte,

      Hml. S. 25, 11.
of disease, feeling, &c.,
to seize, catch
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  • Hine gelæhte wundrung,

      Hml. S. 23, 501.

  • Hine gelæhte unásecgendlic ádl,

      Hml. Th. i. 86, 3.

  • Of gyrninge gálscipe gelæht

    cupiditatis petulantia captus,

      An. Ox. 5291.
to catch a disease
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  • Þæt bærnet þe hé gelæhte æt ðám unrihtwisum were,

      Hml. Th. ii. 346, 25.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-læccan.” 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/48544.

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