ge-lǽran
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Add: to teach. with ace. of person Seó wiþerwearde wyrd gebét and gelǽreð ǽlcne þára þe hió hí tó geþiét, Bt. 20; F. 70, 35. Mé gelǽr doce me, Ps. Ben. 24, 4. Swá wé magon betst ðá gedyrstigan gelǽran, Past. 209, 15. Ic wénde ꝥ ic þé gió gelǽred hæfde
ge-lǽstfullian
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to prove by witness Ic gelǽstfullige contestabor, Ps. L. 80, 9
Linked entry: -lǽstfullian
ge-lǽt
Similar entry: wæter-gelǽt
ge-lǽððe
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Tó Indeum aldre gelǽððe Bartholameus, Ap. 43. In the second edition of Grein's Bibliothek the reading of the MS. is taken to be gelædde. Perhaps genéðde should be substituted; the phrase aldre genéðde occurs in ll. 17, 50, and the construction with tó
ge-lagian
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Add: of general regulations, to fix by law, establish as law Iulius se cásere þisne bissextum gelagode on þǽre stówe þe wé nú hine healdað, Angl. viii. 306, 40. Be þǽre steóre þe Eádgár gelagede, Wlfst. 272, 8. Gif hé his ælmessan rihtlíce ne gelǽste
ge-latian
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to grow torpid Gilattia torpescit, Rtl. 125, 27. to be slow about a matter (gen.), be dilatory Smeáge gehwá georne hine sylfne, and þæs ná ne gelatige ealles tó lange, Wlfst. 165, 24
ge-leáfa
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Leave Be þes cynges gelǽfan (leáfe, lǽfe, v. ll. ), Chr. 1043; P. 165, 10
ge-leáfful
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Add: having faith, or trust Hé wæs Gode geleáffull on his heortan, Shrn. 76, 21. having the Christian faith, Christian Blissian nú eall geleáffull folc, for þon þe for ús Crístes blód wæs ágoten, Bl. H. 91, 7. Godes ðeówas hí wurðiað on geleáffulre
ge-leáfleást
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From þǽm þýstrum heora geleáfleáste genered, Lch. iii. 432, 25. Hé wæs þǽra hǽþen[r]a láreów on heora geleáfleáste, Hml. S. 29, 7, 84. Seó burhwaru ( of Jerusalem ) forférde for hyre geleáfleáste, Hml. A. 46, 549. For heora geleáfleáste þá þá hí wurðodon
ge-leáflic
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Add: credible, probable Hit is swíðe geleáflic þæt hé hyre miceles ðinges tíðian wylle, Hml. Th. i. 454, 1. Augustinus sǽde þæt án þing wǽre ungeleáflic . . . For ðyssere twýnunge nolde wé hreppan his ðrowunge. Heó is swáðeáh eall full geleáflic, búton
ge-leáflíce
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credibly, in a manner that commands or allows belief Hí heofenan ríce mid Hǽlende ástigon swá swá wíse láreówas geleáflíce secgað ( as we are credibly informed by learned doctors ), Hml. Th. ii. 258, 29. Ús is tó witonne þætte ꝥ wæs geleáflíce gestihtod
ge-leáfsum
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Þá hálwendan men and þá geleáfsuman þá þe tó úrum Drihtne cóman þá hé tó heofonum ástígan wolde, Bl. H. 117, 9. ¶ tó geleáfsuman so as to produce belief :-- Uneáðe mæg mon tó geleáfsuman gesecgan swá monigfeald yfel in tanta malorum multitudine difficillima
ge-leahtrian
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Add: to reproach, blame, upbraid Hé gehyspte Arrianum . . . and hine geleahtrode, swá swá hit gebyrede Arriano exprobravit ut debuit, Gr. D. 238, 15. Hé wæs geleahtrod from Gode increpatur a Domino, Past. 355, 1. Gelaechtrad (printed gelaechtnad, Wrt
ge-leást
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Dele
ge-leccan
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Dele last passage, and add: to moisten, irrigate land Geleht eorðe inrigata terra, Scint. 50, 14. Geleht lyftum, Met. 20, 98. to moisten the lips of a person, give drink to a person Gif hé hyne sylfne mid þǽm ǽspryngum Godes worda gelecð, and his mód
ge-léf
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weak Geleófe yldo aetate prouectae Bd. 3, 8; Sch. 222, 1. (?)
ge-land
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