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ge-lícettan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-lícettan, p. te.
to imitate
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  • Gelíccetton simulare (gestit

    simulare

    sui perpendicula patris,
      Ald. 158, 4), Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 66.
to make a thing
appear like something better than it is, to give an appearance of goodness to a thing
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  • Ðonne hwá on ðá leásunga beféhð, ðonne ne mæg hé of, ac sceal ðonne niéde ðencean hú hé hié gelícettan mæge,

      Past. 239, 13.

  • Oft ungemetlico forgifnes bið gelícet, ðæt mon wéneð ðæt hit sié mildheortnes, ond oft ungemetlicu irsung bið gelícet, ðæt menn wénað þæt hit sié ryhtwíslic anda saepe inordinata remissio pietas creditur, et effrenata ira spiritalis zeli virtus aestimatur, Past. 149, 9-11. II a. to make to appear like to (tó) :-- Sceal se reccere witan ðæt ðá unðeáwas beóð oft gelíccette (-lícette, v. l.) tó gódum ðeáwum and tó mægenum ðurh leásunga

    scire rector debeat, quod plerumque vitia virtutes se esse mentiuntur,

      Past. 149, 3.
to act as if doing what is not really done, to pretend
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  • Ðá ðe gód diégellíce dóð, and swá ðeáh on sumum weorcum gelíccetað ðæt hí openlíce yfel dón

    qui bona occulte faciunt, et tamen quibusdam factis publice de se mala opinari permittunt,

      Past. 449, 21.
to obtain by false pretences
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  • Ðæt hié gegítsien and gelícetten æt ðǽm ungetýdum folce wísdómes naman

    ut apud imperitum vulgus scientiae sibi nomen extorqueant,

      Past. 365, 22.
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v.  ge-liccettan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-lícettan.” 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/48652.

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