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dǽlan

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§47; §134; §162; §221; §272; §530;
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to divide.
to separate into parts
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  • Ic tóclǽfe ł dǽle ( = tó-dǽle ?)

    findo,

      An. Ox. 18 b, 38.

  • Holmas dǽlde Waldend úre,

      Gen. 146.

  • Ic wille dǽlan ðá yfelan ðám yfelum on twá; óþer dǽl þára yflena hæfð éce wíte, . . . óþer dǽl sceal beón geclǽnsod,

      Bt. 38, 4; F. 202, 27.
to break up union, association
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  • Ne ceara þú fleáme dǽlan somwist incre,

      Gen. 2279.
intrans.
to separate (intrans.) into parts,
be torn to pieces
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  • On þreó dǽleð folc ánra gehwylc,

      El. 1286.

  • Sceal þín hrá dǽlan,

      An. 954.
to separate one's self from another,
to part, depart (cf. sie fan iró drohtine délian skoldun, Hel. 4774)
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  • Ic feor gewíte, fleáme dǽle

    elongavi fugiens,

      Ps. Th. 54, 7.
to distribute.
to give to many
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  • Hú þrymlíce þú þíne gife dǽlest,

      An. 548.

  • Þú dǽlest mete þínum mannum,

      Hy. 7, 70: 10, 57.

  • Hé dǽleð help and hǽlo hæleða bearnum,

      Sat. 581; Cri. 428.

  • Hé máðmas dǽleð,

      B. 1756.

  • Tungel heora wlite wíde dǽlað,

      Gen. 2191.

  • Ofer ús dǽl rummódnise

    super nos effunde clementiam,

      Rtl. 41, 5.

  • Sum licgende feoh hé hét ðǽm folce dǽlan,

      Ors. iv. 10; S. 196, 21.

  • Cyning sceal on healle beágas dǽlan,

      Gn. C. 29: B. 1970: Gen. 2829.

  • Fremsumnesse folcum dǽlan,

      Ps. Th. 64, 12.

  • Mid þí þe hé deád sié, uton wé dǽlan his líchaman úrum burhleódum (

    the cannibal Mermedonians

    ),
      Bl. H. 241, 22.
  • ¶ especially used of alms-giving :-- Him bið be hundfealdum écelíce geleánod swá hwæt swá hí be ánfealdum hwílwendlíce dǽlað . . . Hé sumne dǽl his ǽhta dǽlð, Hml. Th. i. 398, 17-29.

  • Wé ælmessan dǽlað,

      Wlfst. 92, 10.

  • Dǽl of ðám ðe ðé God forgeaf . . . Gif ðú forgýmeleásast tó dǽlenne ælmessan,

      Hml. Th. ii. 102, 20.
  • Welan beceápian and þæt wurð ðearfum dǽlan, i. 62, 3.

  • His wæstma þone teóþan dǽl for Godes naman dǽlan,

      Bl. H. 49, 23.

  • Miclum feoh dǽlan

    to give alms liberally,

      Rún. 1.
to give a variety of things
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  • Ðú dǽlst eall gód swá swá ðú wilt,

      Bt. 33, 4; F. 128, 25.

  • God dǽlþ manega and mistlice gemetgunga eallum his gesceaftum . . . Sió wyrd dǽlþ eallum gesceaftum andwlitan and stówa and tída and gemetgunga,

      39, 5; F. 218, 19-33.

  • Dǽleð,

      Vy. 65.

  • Meotud monnum dǽleð, syleð sundorgiefe,

      Crä. 4.

  • Regnþeófas dǽlað yldo oððe ǽrdeáð,

      Exod. 538.

  • Þeáh úre Drihten þá eorþwæstmas mannum missenlíce dǽle,

      Bl. H. 39, 18.
to spend
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  • Man gehylt ðæt hé hæfð, gif hé him ondrǽt ðæt hit him oðsceóte. Ðý mon dǽlð spærlíce, ðe mon nele ðæt hit forberste

    a man spends sparingly from fear of failing,

      Prov. K. 19.

  • Gefrægn ic Hebréos eádge lifgean goldhord dǽlan (

    to spend lavishly

    ),
      Dan. 2.
to share with (
wiþ).
to grant a share
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  • Hé him gehét ðæt hé his ríce wið hiene dǽlan wolde, and hiene under ðǽm ofslóg

    Titum Tatium, mox ut in societatem regni adsumpsit, occidit,

      Ors. 2, 2; S. 66, 11.

  • Hét hé þé dǽlan þíne goldhordas wið hine,

      Hml. S. 32, 52.

  • Se ríca berð máre þonne hé behófige . . .; for ðí sceal se ríca dǽlan his byrðene wið þone ðearfan,

      Hml. Th. i. 254, 31.

  • Swá nó man scyle his gástes lufan wið Gode dǽlan

    not in such measure is the spirit's love to be given to God,

      Dan. 21.
to obtain a share
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  • Nǽfre Ismael wið Isáce, wið mín ágen bearn, yrfe dǽleð,

      Gen. 2788.
  • Wið Drihtne dǽlan wuldorfæstan wíc, 26.

  • Hé smeáde hú hé mihte dǽlan ríce wið God,

      Hml. Th. i. 12, 1: 172, 1.
of common action
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  • Nis þæt gemet mannes þæt hé wið áglǽcean eofoðo dǽle (

    take part in conflict, fight with

    ), eorlscype efne,
      B. 2534.

  • Betere þonne wé hilde dǽlon

    better than our fighting with one another,

      By. 33.
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v. twi-dǽlan; þri-dǽled.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “dǽlan.” 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/42567.

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