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hlít

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hlít, es; m. (but in Ps. L. 30, 16 the word seems feminine).
Take here hlét, hlyt (l. hlýt) in Dict., and add:
a lot (the object which is used)
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  • Cleros an Crécisc getácnað hlýt an Englisc

    cleros sors inter fretatur

    • Chrd. 75, 28
    • .
  • Ofer hrægl mín sendon hlét (hlýt, Ps. L.)

    super vestem meam miserunt sortem

    • Ps. Vos. Srt. 21, 19
    • .
  • Hlétt,

    • Mk. R. 15, 24
    • .
the urn in which the lots were placed:
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  • Hléte

    urna (matronam, quam suprema sors gemina mortis mulctaverat urna,

    • Ald. 25,9
    • ),
    • Hpt. Gl. 449, 58
the casting of lots
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  • Wiðercwidas ofðrect hlét, and tó-scéd

    contradictiones comprimit sors, et (inter potentes) diiudicat,

    • Kent. Gl. 655
    • .
  • Be hléte

    sorte (territorii dirempta),

    • Hpt. Gl. 426, 42
    • .
  • Hléte tódǽlde him eorðan

    sorte diviasit eis terram

    • Ps. Vos. Srt. 77, 54
    • .
the share assigned to a person
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  • Seó sáwel ðe bedǽled is þám gódnyssum, heó gewilnige þæt se cystiga wealdend hí geðeóde þám hlýte his gecorena,

    • Hml. Th. i. 346, 29.
  • Ne forlǽt Dryhten gird synfulra ofer hlét

    (sortem)

    ryhtwísra,

    • Ps. Vos. Srt. 134, 3
    • .
lot, fate, fortune
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  • Hé Mercna ríce twá and twéntig wintra missenlice hléte (hlýte, v. l. varia sorte) fore wæs,

    • Bd. 2, 20
    • ;
    • 184, l.

    Þone hé gelíce hléte (hlýte, v. l.) geniðrade and ofslóh

    Eanfridum simili sorte damnavit

    • 3, l
    • ;
    • Sch. 192, 22
    • .
  • Nú syndon gesette þá apostolas in hlét ǽ hié bodian

    now are the apostles appointed to the task(?) of ever proclaiming her

    • Bl. H. 157, 35
    • .
  • On handum þínum hlýta míne

    in manibus tuis series meae,

    • Ps. L. 30, 16.
of death:
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  • Þǽre ýtemeste hlýtes

    sortis suppremę,

    • An. Ox. 2294
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  • Þǽm étemestan hléte

    suprema sorte,

    • Hpt. GL, 453, 34
    • .
Similar entries
v. mid-hlít; hlyte.
Linked entries
v.  hlét hlot hlyt.
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  • hlít, n.