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† aˈblend, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 ablendan, 2–4 ablende(n, 4 ablynde(n. ind. pres. 3rd sing. 1–4 ablendeð, ablent, 4 ablyndeþ. pa. tense 1–3 ablende, ableynte. pa. pple. 1 ablænd, 2–4 ablent, 4 abland.
[f. a- prefix 1 + blend-an to blind. Cf. Ger. erblenden. See also ablind, with which it was in later times confused.]
To dazzle, to take away the sight (temporarily); to blind the moral vision.
c1000ælfric Pastoral Ep. in Anc. Laws II. 372 He [Arius] wæs ablænd on his mode. 1205Layamon 14659 He heom walde ufel don: Baðe ablenden and anhon. c1230Ancren Riwle 86 Ualse uikelare ablendeð þeo þe ham hercneð. 1297R. Glouc. 208 Ac þet blod adoun wende So vaste, in eye, and in face, þat hym ney ablende. c1320Seuyn Sages (W.) 2462 The walmes han the abland. a1327Pol. Songs 345 And so is al this world ablent, that no man douteth sinne. 1340Ayenb. 16 Þis ȝenne of prede..ablent men ȝuo þet hi ham⁓ȝelve ne knaweþ. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 264 A beem in þine owne [eye] A-blyndeth þi-selue. Ibid. xviii. 323 Lucifer loke ne myȝte So lyȝte him ableynte. 1393― C. xxi. 142 Þis light and þis leom · shal Lucifer a-blende. |