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Substitute: pp. -lagen.
to restrain a person (dat.) from something (acc.)
by blaming, to prohibit
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  • Hé willnode þæt hé móste mid him sweltan, þeáh se bisscop him þæt swíðe belóh (tametsi ipso multum prohibente), Bd. 5, 19; Sch. 661, 18. ꝥ preóstas ofer-druncen georne beleán óðrum mannum

    that priests restrain other men from drunkenness by their earnest condemnation of it,

      Ll. Th. ii. 256, 14.

  • Næs nán wítega ásend tó hǽðenum folce, þe heora gedwyld belóge,

      Hml. Th. ii. 76, 6.

  • Ne inc ǽnig mon beleán mihte sorhfulne sið

    nobody could keep you turn from the grievous adventure by pointing out its folly,

      B. 511.

  • Ðǽm lytegan is ǽresð tó beleánne hiera selflíce, ðæt hié ne wénen ðæt hié sién wiése

    in hebetibus hoc primum destruendum est, quod se sapientes arbitrantur,

      Past. 203, 9.

  • Him sí belagen ðæt hí dóð

    sunt destruenda ea, in quibus nequiter versant,

      441, 7.
to charge with (? v. be-hlígan)
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  • Wídgongel wíf mon wommum bilihð,

      Gn. Ex. 65.
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[For to bileande ꝥ no man werpe þe gilt of his sinne anuppen God, Hml. ii. 107, 10. O. H. Ger. pi-lahan.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “be-leán.” 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/39880.

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