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wǽdlian

  • verb [ weak ]
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wǽdlian, p. ode.
to be poor, indigent, needy, in want
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  • Ic wǽdlige

    egeo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 26, 2; Zup. 154, 15.
  • Hé wédlaþ

    egebit,

      Kent. Gl. 835.
  • Se ðe wédlat

    qui indiget,

    333.
  • Ða welegan wǽdledon (wéðladon, Ps. Surt.) and eodon biddende

    divites eguerunt,

      Ps. Th. 33, 10.
  • Beóð welige hwílwendlíce, ðæt gé écelíce wǽdlion,

      Homl. Th. i. 64, 16.
  • Ðá wurdon hí dreórige on móde, ðæt hí wǽdligende on ánum wáclícum wǽfelse férdon, 62, 28. I a. to be in want of something, to lack, not to have enough :-- Leádes ða men wǽdliaþ, and goldes genihtsumiaþ

    plumbo egent, auro habundant,

      Nar. 31, 4.
  • Weðliende hláf

    egens panem,

      Ps. Surt. 36, 25.
to beg
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  • Se ðe sæt and wǽdlode

    qui sedebat et mendicabat,

      Jn. Skt. 9, 8.
  • Mé sceamaþ ðæt ic wǽdlige

    mendicare erubesco,

      Lk. Skt. 16, 3.
  • Hí wǽdlian (wéðlien, Ps. Surt.)

    mendicent,

      Ps. Spl. 108, 9.
  • Sum blind man sæt wið ðæne weg wǽdligende (

    mendicans

    ),
      Lk. Skt. 18, 35; Wǽdliende, Blickl. Homl. 17, 31, 34.
  • Hé wédlat

    mendicabit,

      Kent. Gl. 731.
Etymology
[Þe king wæilien (wædlien? to go as a beggar) agon wide ȝeon þas þeoden, Laym. 28880. O. H. Ger. wádalón evagari.]
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