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ó-leccan

  • verb [ weak ]
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ó-leccan, -liccan, -læcan; p. -lecte, -lehte, -læhte.
Wright's OE grammar
§534;
to treat gently, to soothe, caress
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  • Ic ólæce

    blandior,

      Ælfc. Gr. 31; Som. 35, 51.

  • Ólecceþ

    favet,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 147, 19.

  • Ólehte

    delinuit,

    l.
      138, 50.

  • Hé him ólecte ðá hé cuæþ

    cut blandiens dicit.

      Past. 26, I ; Swt. 181, 10.

  • God hwílon geólæhþ, and hwílon beswingþ. Nǽre nán tihting, gif hé ús ne ólæhte,

      Homl. Th. ii. 330, 3.

  • Ólecce

    demulceat, blanditur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 138, 68.

  • Óleccende

    blandiens,

      127, 8.

  • Óleccendra

    palpantum,

      116, 51.
to be obsequious, pay court to, fawn upon, flatter, to try to gain a person's good will by unworthy means
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  • Óleccaþ

    adolatur.

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 127. 7.
    þeófum ðú ne ólæce, ne yfeldǽdum ne geþwǽrlǽce, Homl. Skt. i. 21, 361.

  • Hé nolde ólæcan ænigum rícan mid geswǽsum wordum,

      Homl. Th. ii. 514, 13.

  • Gif ðú wille ðæt ðé monige ólæcan ðonne ólæce ðú ánum swíðe georne

    if you wish many to pay court to you, do you sedułously pay court to one,

      Prov. Kmbl. 79 : 80.

  • Mé riht ne þinceþ ðæt ic óleccan þurfe Gode æfter góde ǽnegum,

      Cd. Th. 19, 12 ; Gen. 290.
to gain good will by worthy means, to propitiate, be submissive
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  • Ðæm

    (God)

    óleccaþ ealle gesceafte ðe ðæs ambehtes áwuht cunnon (cf. ðam þeówiaþ ealle . . . ða ðe cunnon,
      Bt. 21 ; Fox 72, 30), Met. II. 8.

  • Ólæce Gode ánum

    try to please God only,

      Prov. Kmbl. 80.

  • Hé wolde onginnan him oleccan mid his hearepan he (Orpheus) would attempt to propitiate them (the gods of Hell) with his harp, Bt. 35, 6 ; Fox 168, 14 :

    Cd. Th.

      118, 3 ; Gen. 1959.

  • Uton wé Gode óliccan,

      Exon. Th. 366, 15; Reb. 12.
of things
to gratify, charm, give pleasure
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  • Ealle ða óðru gód óleccaþ ðam móde and hit ret se lust ána ólecþ ðam líchoman ánum swíðost

    cetera omnia jucunditatem animo videantur afferre,

      Bt. 24, 3 ; Fox 84, 23-25.

  • Swilce hý wǽron rihte ðá hí ðé mǽst geóleccan swilce hí nú sindon ðeáh ðe hý ðé óleccan on ða leásan sǽlþa

    talis erat, cum blandiebatur, cum tibi falsae illecebris felicitatis alluderet,

      7, 2 ; Fox 18, 2.
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v.  óliccan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ó-leccan.” 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/24414.

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