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of physical fire or light,
to kindle fire, light a lamp
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  • Anǽl lígræscas corusca coruscationes, Bl. Gl. Þára eágan scínað swá leóhte swá man (is an ; ma, MSS. ) micel blácern onǽle ( this is seems a better reading than that taken under ǽl) on þýstre nihte

    quorum oculi sicut lucerna lucent,

      Nar. 37, 18.
  • Fýr wæs onǽld

    ignis accensus est,

      Ps. L. 77, 21; p. 245, 31.
  • Onǽled fýr,

      Ps. Th. 88, 39.
to set on fire
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  • Swá hwæt swá heó gesihð, heó tóblǽwþ and anǽleþ (on-, onǽlþ,

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    ),
      Lch. i. 242, 21.
  • Ád stód onǽled, Gen. 2922 : Ph. 216. (b α)

    to cause to shine

    :-- Ianuarius se móna biþ onǽled et middre neht,
      Hpt. 33; 66, 17 : 18 : 19.
of strong feeling, of mental or spiritual light,
to excite strong feeling
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  • Hí onǽlað ðearlran dóm wið him

    districtius contra se judicium accendunt,

      Past. 433, 33.
  • Healdað eów ðæt gé ne onǽlen mín ierre mid eówrum searwum,

      435, 9.
to cause spiritual light
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  • Onǽl þæs Hálgan Gástes leóht on ús,

      Hml. Th. ii. 598, 21.
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  • Þonne þeós woruld byrneð áde onǽled,

      Ph. 503: El. 951.
  • Onǽlede of fýre incensa igni, Bl. Gl.
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  • Hét hé gefeccan ǽnne ǽrenne oxan and þone onǽlan,

      Hml. S. 30, 421.
  • Is þes atola hám fýre onǽled, Sat. 97. III a.

    to make hot

    with other matter than fire :-- Flór is on welme ǽttre onǽled,
      Sat. 40.
  • Wæs se báncofa ádle onǽled,

      Gú. 928.
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  • Se Hálga Gást heora ealra mód swá onbryrde and onǽlde, ꝥ hí cúðon ǽlc gereord þe on middanearde is,

      Hml. Th. ii. 47, 7.
  • Hwí eart þú onǽled mid swá ídele gefeán?

    quid inanibus gaudiis raperis,

      Bt. 14, 1; F. 40, 29.
  • Þú woldest swíþe swíþlíce beón onǽled mid ðǽre gítsunge

    quanto ardore flagrares,

      22, 2; F. 78, 3.
  • Hé wearð onǽled on heora lufe,

      Hml. S. 30, 304.
  • Æfestum onǽled,

      Mód. 43.
  • Ðonne wé ne beóð onǽlde mid ðǽre lustbǽrnesse úres módes

    dum congruo fervore mens non accenditur,

      Past. 283, 2.
to incite to
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  • Menie men syndon þe þá gebysnunga gódra wera swýðor þonne þá láre onǽlað and tihtað tó lufe þæs heofenlican éðles (ad amorem patriae coelestis succendunt) . . . þæt mód byð onǽled

    (accenditur)

    tó lufe þæs tówerdan lífes,
      Gr. D. 8, 11-19.
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[v. N. E. D. anneal.]
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