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to leave, allow to have, grant
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  • Ic eaforan þínum spédum wille stépan and him sóðe tó módes wǽre míne gelǽtan, (gelæstan? v. 1542),

      Gen. 2366.
  • For gebétendnysse tó fyrstan synt gelǽtene (nobis) propter emendationem (malorum hujus uite dies) ad inducias relaxantur (R. Ben. I. 5, 6), An. Ox. 58, 8. I a.

    to let

    land, &c. :-- Ælfwíg hæfð gelǽten tó Stígande .xxx. hýda landes wið .x. marcan goldes and wið .xx. pundon seolfres,
      C. D. iv. 171, 28.
to cause to move, bring. Cf. ge-lǽte
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  • Gif hió (

    the wound) swíþor unsýfre weorþe, clǽnsa mid hunige and gelǽt eft tógædere, Lch. ii. 210, 2. II a. of the movement of a ship [cf. Icel. láta til lands, at landi to stand towards land], to stand, shape a course :-- Gelíce þám þe on léfan scipe neáh lande gelǽtaþ (like those that in a crazy vessel shape a course near land, have nearly made the land ),

    and hit þonne se storm út ádrífeð swá feorr ꝥ hý æt nécstan ne magon nán land geseón,
      Gr. D. 5, 25.
to put into a position,
commit, entrust
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  • On treówe gelǽton

    fidei commissum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 76.
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[O. H. Ger. ge-lázan adnuere, praestare, largiri, cedere.]
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