† wlatev.
Obsolete.
1. intransitive and impersonal with dative. To feel disgust or loathing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > loathe or abhor [verb (intransitive)]
wlatec1000
reckc1300
loathec1430
to shrink up (occasionally in) one's shoulders1605
nauseate1657
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > affect with loathing or disgust [verb (transitive)]
uga1250
wlatec1400
irka1535
loathe1568
nauseate1626
stall1642
inodiate1657
stale1709
repel1748
repugn?a1760
sicken1825
c1000 Ælfric Numbers xxi. 5 Us wlataþ nu for ðisum eohtostan mete.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 220 Þonne hie mete þicgeað & drincað, þonne wlatað hie.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 294 Forþi þet art ase wlech..þumakest me to wlatien.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 69 Ȝef ha hit [sc. the filth of flattery] stunken ham walde wlatie þer wið.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 354 Ouerfulle makeþ wlatie.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 3538 Swyche men god almyȝty hatys And with here foule synne hym wlatys.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9932 Ȝyf þou hym louest, with synne þou wlates.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 305 With her vn-worþelych werk me wlatez with-inne.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 47 His hert wold wlaton and be aschamed of hymselfe, to þenk þat he wer conceyuet of so fowle þyng.
2. transitive. To loathe, abhor.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > loathe [verb (transitive)]
shun1023
loathea1200
uga1340
wlatea1340
horrec1430
irka1500
loathly?1507
to hate like poison1530
detesta1535
detestate1548
execrate1553
hugge1570
to hold in detestation1576
distaste1599
nauseate1627
detaste1637
fastidiatea1650
absonate1775
skeeve1991
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter v. 7 Man of blodes & swikel wlath sall lord.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. ii. 18 I wlatede alle my bisynesse, that..most studiousli I trauailede.
1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) vi. xvii. t viii The glose..seyth that it is amaner of spech to do wlate auoutre and shewynge that auoutrye is ful greuous.
c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.viv To worshyppe god men wolde wlate.
3. To disgust.
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a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5634 It wald haue wlated any wee þat welth to be-hald.
c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 187 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 209 Now me wlatis sa myn syne þat I for-sak it.
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