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leás, <b>. II.</b>
Wright's OE grammar
§426; §613; §633;
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  • Sóðfæst verax, sóðsagol veridicus, leás fallax vel mendax, unsóðsagol

    falsidicus

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 17-20.
of persons (or personifications).
not truthful
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  • Ic cwæð þæt wǽron ealle menn ungemete leáse

    ego dixi, 'Omnis homo mendax,'

      Ps. Th. 115, 2.
not real, false, pseudo-
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  • Leáse crístas and leáse wítegan,

      Mk. 13, 22.

  • Þá leásan godu,

      Ap. 49.
not to be trusted, perfidious, deceitful
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  • Leás fyrnhicge

    prostituta pellax

    ,
      An. Ox. 2940.

  • Leás wiht (leáswiht ?)(

    Satan

    ),
      Sat. 727.

  • Sió óðru wyrd is leás and beswícþ ealle hire geféran

    illa fortuna fallit

    ,
      Bt. 20 ; F. 70, 33.

  • Fram leásum áþume geypt

    a pellaci genero proditus

    ,
      An. Ox. 2377.

  • Leásum

    perfido (fratre ),

    5068.

  • Hí weorþaþ bereáfode ǽlcre áre fram heora leásan cyninge,

      Bt. 29, 2 ; F. 104, 17.

  • Leáse sceáweras

    spies

    ,
      B. 253.

  • Þá leásan men, þá þe mid tungan treówa gehátað, fácenlíce þencað þonne hié æt néhstan beswícað,

      Leás. 24.
of conduct,
loose, licentious, cf. leásung;
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  • Ualerianus wæs swíðe leás man and wrǽne aa

    Valerianus levis ac lubricus extitit

    ,
      Gr. D. 341, 2.
of things.
in reference to speech,
untruthful, lying, false
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  • Leásre wróhte

    strofose accussationis

    ,
      An. Ox. 4236.

  • Swilce hé gebringe ðá sóðan láre tó leásum gedwylde,

      Hml, Th. ii. 2, 24.

  • For hwí ðé hátan dysige men mid leásre stemne wuldor?,

      Bt. 30, 1 ; F. 108, 2.

  • Leásum spellum,

      Met. 26, 1.
sham, not genuine
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  • Hét Maxentius mid micclum swicdóme oferbricgian ðá eá mid scipum, and syððan ðylian swá swá óðre bricge . . . hé ne gemunde ðǽre leásan bricge þe hé álecgan hét,

      Hml. Th. ii. 304, 27.

  • Leása gesǽlþa

    falsa bona

    ,
      Met. 12, 27.

  • Þás feówer (

    the four evangelists) syndon tó underfónne, . . . and forlǽtan þá óðre þe leáse gesetnysse (pseudo-gospels, apocryphal writings )

    gesetton,
      Hml. S. 16, 224.
false, not to be trusted, deceptive, vain, worthless
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  • Ic nolde ꝥ unc beswice ǽnegu leás anlícnes (

    cassa imago

    ) for sóþa gesǽlþa,
      Bt. 34, 1 ; F. 134, 8.

  • Se leása wéna þára dysigena monna

    hominum fallax opinio,

      27, 3 ; F. 98, 32.

  • Ꝥ leáse lot bewrigen mid wrencum

    fraus mendaci compta colore

    ,
      Met. 4, 46.

  • Eálá hú leás is þysses middaneardes wela,

      Chr. 1086; P. 219, 6.
faulty, incorrect, false (as in
false quantity)
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  • Solocismus

    bið sum leás word on ðám ferse,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 294, 10.
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v. un-leás.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “leás.” 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/54392.

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