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† aˈlout, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 alút-an, 2–3 alute, 4–5 aloute, 5 alowte.
[Alout as a weak. vb. represents formally OE. lútian to lurk, but in sense it answers to the strong alútan to stoop: see lout. In either case the a- is a- prefix 1 intensive.]
1. intr. To stoop, to bow down; to fall over.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxiv. 12 And alútende he ᵹeseah þa lín-wæda. c1160Hatton G., ibid., And alutede, he ᵹeseah þa linwæde. 1297R. Glouc. 476 The thridde..ther after smot anon, & made him a loute al adown. c1480Caxton Life of our Ladye (R.) He [statue of Romulus] alowted vpon the same nyght Whan Cryst was bore of a pure virgyne.
2. esp. To bow in deference or worship to.
a1260Hymn in Rel. Ant. I. 101 That child..to me alute lowe. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1182 All men that to him wol allowte. c1450J. Russell Bk. Nurt. in Babees Bk. 139 Kutt þe vpper crust, for youre souerayne, & to hym alowt. a1500St. Katherine (Halliw.) 8 All they schall alowt to thee, Yf thou wylt alowte to me.
b. (When the cases were levelled, the indirect object appeared as direct, and the verb as if transitive.)
c1300Alisaunder 851 Þe ludes in þe lond alouten him shal. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxix. (1859) 62 Alle folke the alouteth, and obeyeth. c1440Arth. 117 Heyest & lowest hym Loved & alowte. |