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to pay attention with the ear to an utterance or a speaker
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  • Cwæð Críst tó him: ' Hlyst nú, Placida ; ic eom Críst, '

    • Hml. S. 30, 59.
  • Ic sceal sprecan . . . hliste sé þe wille,

    • Met. Einl. 10
    • .
of the regular attention of a learner
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  • Ðé gedafenað tó lérenne and mé tó hlistenne,

    • Solil. H. 32, 16.
to listen to speech or speaker.
with gen.
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  • Wé byddað ðé ꝥ þú háte hyne cuman tóforan þýnum dómsetle, and hlyst hys worda,

    • Nic. 2, 5
    • .
  • Ðá fundon hié hiene tómiddes ðára wietena . . , hlystende hiora worda

    invenerunt ilium in media doctorum audientem illos

    • Past. 385, 23
    • .
  • Seó módor sæt geornlíce hlystende hira tale,

    • Hml. S. 30, 321.
to listen as a learner, be a regular auditor:
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  • Hé hine þǽr áfédde feówer geár. . . and hine sóhton þá crístenan and his láre hlyston,

    • Hml. S. 22, 190.
to give heed to a person or to advice, be persuaded to follow:
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  • Nýd weorðeð 'niða bearnum tó helpe, gif hí his hlystað ǽror,

    • Rún. 10
    • .
  • Hlest

    ausculta (sermones meos),

    • Kent. Gl. 74
    • .
with dat. or prep,
of regular auditors
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  • Sé ðe fundige wíslíce tó sprecanne, ondrǽde hé him ðý lǽs his sprǽc gescynde ðá ánmódnesse ðǽra ðe ðǽrtó hlystað

    (ne ejus eloquio audientium unitas confundatur),

    • Past. 93, 25
    • :
    • 95, 20
    • .
  • Ne ic stæfcyste ne leornode, ne þǽra nánum ne hlyste þe þá smeádon and rǽddon,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, 594
    • .
  • Bodian láreówas godcunde þearfe, and ǽlc ꝥ gescád wite hlyste him georne,

    • Ll. Th. i. 424, 19
    • .
  • Hú hé lǽran mæge ðá ðe ðǽrtó hlystan willað,

    • Past. 95, 22
    • .
to listen and be persuaded
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  • Hlyst mínum rǽde gif ðú lufast megðhád, ꝥ ðú gebúge mid biggengum tó þǽre gydenan Vesta,

    • Hml. S. 7, 99
    • .
  • Sé ðe oferhogie þæt hé heom hlyste,

    • Wlfst. 176, 27
    • .
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v. ge-hlystan, under-hlystan.
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