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hǽtu

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Wright's OE grammar
§383; §563;
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  • Hǽto

    calor.

      Wrt. Voc. i. 291, 11.
the quality or
property of being hot
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  • On

    ðǽre sunnan is hǽtu and beorhtnys; seó hǽtu drýgð,
      Hml. Th. i. 284, 35.
  • Þǽre sunnan hǽtu wyrcð fíf dǽlas on middanearde,

      Lch. iii. 260, 18 : Ph. 17.
  • Hǽto,

      Bl. H. 51, 21.
  • Fýres hǽto,

      Dan. 262.
  • Swíðe sweartes líchaman heó wæs for þǽre sunnan hǽto,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 176.
  • From haeto (

    calore

    ) his,
      Ps. Srt. 18, 7.
  • Þæs folces wæs fela forworden ǽgðer ge for þurste ge for hǽte (

    ardore solis

    ),
      Ors. 6, 31; S. 286, 21.
heat as an element in all bodies
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  • Geðweorod sint . . . cele wið hǽto, wǽt wið drýgum,

      Met. 20, 73.
  • Se cyle wið ðá hǽto and ꝥ wǽt wið ðám drýgum,

      Bt. 33, 4; F. 128, 33: Met. 20, 113: 29, 50.
a hot condition of the atmosphere, hot weather
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  • Ðeostru and léht, cele and haetu (

    caumas

    ),
      Ps. Srt. ii. p. 197, 32.
  • Hý hit ne magon eall gebúgian, sum for hǽto, sum for cyle,

      Bt. 18, 1; F. 62, 10.
  • Ǽlc wiht mæg bet wyð cyle þonne wið hǽte (

    omnia animantia patientius ad summum frigoris quam ad summum caloris accedant

    ),
      Ors. 1,1; S. 24, 30.
  • Feáwe men mehten beón eardfæste . . . for þǽre hǽte and for þǽm stence . . . ge ealle þá fiscas ácwę́lan for þǽre hǽte,

      5, 4; S. 226, 2-7.
  • Ic drífe sceáp míne tó heora lǽse, and stande ofer hig on hǽte (

    aestu

    ) and on cyle,
      Coll. M. 20, 13.
of sexual passion
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  • Seó gecyndelice hǽtu þurh ꝥ mægen þæs Hálgan Gástes gestilleþ on þé (

    the Virgin Mary

    ),
      Bl. H. 7, 27.
great warmth of feeling, fervour
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  • Se rehtgeleáfa mid haetu (calore )

    walle,
      Ps. Srt. ii. p. 201, 17.
  • v. lencten-, sumer-hǽtu hǽte.
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