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hlinian

  • verb [ weak ]
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  • On hlingo (-u, written over o)

    innitor,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 111, 73
      • .
to recline, lie on a couch for rest (or to eat; in translation of Latin -cumbere forms)
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  • Se wulderfulla on godewebbenum beddum hlinað,

    • E. S. viii. 473, 18
      • .

  • Wíf ongeat ꝥte hlionade (sæt, W. S.,

    accubuit)

    in hús,

    • Lk. L. 7, 37
      • .

  • Hé æt gereordum hlenode on þæs Hǽlendes bearme,

    • Shrn. 32, 18.

  • Se ele gewǽtte þone flór þǽre stówe þe hí on hlinedon

    (incubuerant),

    • Gr. D. 160, 14
      • .

  • Hlioniga (hlinig, L., site, W. S.,

    recumbe)

    on ðá lætemestu stówwe . . . bið ðé wuldor bifora ðǽm hlingendum (sittendurn, W. S.,

    discumbentibus),

    • Lk. R. 14, 10,

  • Hlengendes æt gereordum

    recumbentis

    • Mt. R. 26, 7
      • .

  • Ðá ðe hliongende woeron,

    • Lk. L. 7, 49
      • .
to lean for support
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  • Þá stuðu þe se bysceop on hleonigende forðférde

    illa destina cui incumbens obiit

    • Bd. 3, 17
      • ;
    • Sch. 269, 18
      • .
to incline in thought, be favourably disposed to
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  • Eallra willa hlinede (hleonade, hleonodon, v. ll.) tó gehýranne þá gefeán þæs heofonlican ríces

    omnium uota ad nuper audita caelestis regni gaudia penderent

    • Bd. 4, 2
      • ;
    • Sch. 345, 8
      • .
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v. wiþer-hlinian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hlinian.” 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/52747.

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