Obs. Also 4 yblend. [Y- 4, BLEND v.1] Blinded; dazed; ‘clouded.’

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a. 1225–1450.  iblend, iblent [see BLEND v.1].

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1340.  Ayenb., 201. Huo þet is beueld mid þo lac he is riȝtuolliche yblent.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 457. Þat was i-blend wiþ [MS. γ yblend be] þe chaungynge of hap of mankynde [orig. hoc obnubilavit sortis humanae varietas].

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c. 1407.  Lydg., Reson & Sens., 3659. Shippes … With her songe so fonned bee, So supprysed, and y-blent.

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1423.  James I., Kingis. Q., lxxiv. All my body so It hath ouerwent, That of my sicht the vertew hale Iblent.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 5. The eye of reason was with rage yblent.

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1590.  Greene, Neuer too late (1600), 6. Beeing all with cares yblent, When he thought on yeeres mispent.

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