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leóht

  • noun [ neuter ]
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leóht, a light.
Wright's OE grammar
§44; §49; §127; §137; §175; §189; §192; §326;
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light.
the medium of visual perception generally; the condition of space in which light is present
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  • Leóht hafað híw and hád Háliges Gástes,

      Sal. 408.

  • Æt sunnan setlgange . . .nǽnig leóht ne æteóweþ,

      BI. H. 93, 17.

  • Þǽr is ꝥ éce leóht búton þeóstrum,

      65, 17.

  • Hí sóhton óðer land

    (hell

    ): þæt wæs leóhtes leás and wæs líges full (cf.
      Milton's 'from those flames no light'), Gen. 333: Bl. H. 63, 2.

  • Leóhtes hyrde God,

      Az. 121 : Dóm. 53.

  • Þone þe leóht gescóp. Jul. 117: Gen. 122. (1 a)

    light as a mark of a habitable region, a region or condition in which there is light,

    used of this world and the next :-- Hé sáwla lǽdeð on úprodor, þǽr [is] leóht and líf, Exod. 545.

  • Ús is wuldres leóht ontýned

    heaven is opened to us,

      Sat. 556: Cri. 1673: An. 1613.

  • Hé ús hafað þæs leóhtes bescyrede

    he has deprived us of heaven,

      Gen. 392: 401.
  • Heó on wyrse leóht under eorðan neoðan God sette sigeleáse, on þá sweartan helle, 310.

  • Gif hit forget his ágen leóht, ꝥ is éce gefeá,

      Bt. 3, 2; F. 6, 9.
light as itself an object of perception, an individual shining or
appearance of light
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  • Mycel leóht and freábeorht onlýhte ꝥ carcern,

      Bl. H. 229, 28.

  • Ðá him ðæt leóht cóm of heofonum and hine gebrégde,

      Past. 443, 19.

  • Nú scíneð þé leóht fore glædlic ongeán, þe ic from Gode bróhte, hwít of heofonum,

      Gen. 614: B. 727.

  • Mid beorhtum leóhte

    luce serena,

      An. Ox. 3324.

  • Mid his þǽm scínendan leóhte,

      Bl. H. 85, 9.
light residing in or emanating from a luminary
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  • Þæs blácernes leóht næs gesýne,

      Vis. Lfc. 55.

  • Se móna mid his blácan leóhte,

      Bt. 4; F. 6, 35.

  • Se móna hys leóht (lęht,

      L. ) ne sylð, Mt. 24, 29.

  • Siððan hié sunnan leóht geseón meahton,

      B. 648.
fig. of a beloved object
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  • Þú eart dohtor mín seó dýreste . . . mínra eágna leóht,

      Jul. 95.
the illumination which proceeds from the sun in daytime, daylight, daytime, the light of day
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  • Þancwyrþe biþ þæs dæges leóht for þǽre egeslican þióstro þíre nihte,

      Bt. 23; F. 78, 28.

  • Þá cóm óeth;er dæg, leóht æfter þeóstrum,

      Gen. 144.

  • Leóht eástan cóm,

      B. 569: An. 124.

  • On leóhtes deorcunge

    in lucis crepusculo,

      Angl. xiii. 398, 475.

  • Æfter leóhtes cyme,

      Jul. 161.

  • Ǽr leóhte

    ante lucem,

      Ps. Vos., Rdr. 77, 34.

  • Onginnendum leóhte incipiente luce, R. Ben. l. 37, 15. ¶ cf. the phrase by God's

    light

    :-- Dæg byð Dryhtnes sond, mǽre metodes leóht,
      Rún. 24.
the state of being visible or exposed to view, as in to come to
light
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  • Sceal on leóht cuman sínra weorca wlite,

      Cri. 1037 : Ph. 508.
power of vision, eyesight
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  • Cwæþ se godspellere ꝥ leóht cyrde

    tó

    þon blindan,
      Bl. H. 17, 36.

  • Sæge Adame hwilce þú gesihðe hæfst. . . gife ic him þæs leóhtes genóg, þæs ic þé swá gódes gegired hæbbe,

      Gen. 619.

  • Se blinda leóht onféng,

      Bl. H. 19, 11. ¶
    where sight is taken as a mark of life :-- Sé þe wile eorlscipe æfnan, oð þæt eal scæceð leóht and líf somod, Víd. 142.
a body which emits illuminating rays.
a heavenly body
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  • Ðonne swegles leóht, gimma gladost, ofer gársecg úp æðeltungla wyn eástan líxeð,

      Ph. 288.

  • Cwóm leóhta mǽst

    the sun rose,

      Gú. 1256.

  • God cwæð: 'Beó nú leóht

    (luminaria) on þǽre heofenan fæstnysse . . . and beón tó tácnum . . . God geworhte twá micele leóht (luminaria magna )

    þæt máre leóht tó þæs dæges líhtinge and þæt lǽsse leóht tó þǽre nihte líhtinge,
      Gen. i. 14-16.
a lighted candle, lamp, &c.
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  • Wé sceolon beran úre leóht tó cyrcan and lǽtan hí ðær bletsian,

      Hml. Th. i. 150, 27.
with collective force
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  • ꝥ hi Godes circan mid leóhte and lácum gelóme gegrétan,

      Ll. Th. i. 326, 17.

  • Wé sculan gán mid þám leóhte betwux Godes húsum and singan ðone lofsang . . . þeáh ðe sume men singan ne cunnon, hí beron þeáhhwæðere þæt leóht on heora handum,

      Hml. Th. i. 150, 28-31.
used figuratively
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  • Se Godes cwide is leóht wincendra,

      Sal. 77.

  • Ðý lǽs sió gídsung ðæs lǽnan lofes ádwǽsce ðæt leóht ðǽre geofolnesse,

      Past. 321, 22.
illumination as a possession of the mind
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  • Hí onféngon ðæt leóht ðæs ondgietes,

      Past. 429, 12.
in a spiritual sense
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  • Bróðor Pawlus, árís þú and gebide þé ǽr, for ðon þú eart leóhtes swer,

      Bl. H. 141, 1.

  • Men forléton þá beorhtnessa þæs heofonlican leóhtes,

      17, 16.

  • Gehwilcne man þǽra þe wilnaþ tó þæs sðþan gódes lióhte tó cumenne,

      Bt. 35, 6; F. 170, 17.

  • Hé wæs onǽled mid ðý úpcundan leóhte,

      Past. 379, 24.

  • Neálǽcan þǽm leóhte ðǽre sóðfæstnesse,

      461, 7.

  • Hé hafaþ leóht éces lífes,

      Bl. H. 103, 31. VII a.

  • Wealdend God . . . sóðfæstra leóht,

      El. 7.

  • Þú eart heofonlic lióht and þæt hálige lamb,

      Hy. 8, 22.

  • Þý þriddan dæge ealles leóhtes leóht lifgende árás,

      El. 486.

  • Gé synt middaneardes leóht,

      Mt. 5, 14. v. ælmes-leóht, candel-leóht, frum-leóht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “leóht.” 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/54514.

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