Obs. [OE. ʓeléaf: see Y- 3 a, LEAVE sb.] Permission; leave.

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a. 1050.  Liber Scintill., l. (1889), 165. Iniquorum potestas super te ex dei datur licentia, unrihtwisra miht ofer þe of godes ys ʓeseald ʓeleaf.

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a. 1122.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1043. Be þes cynges ʓelæfan.

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c. 1315.  Shoreham, I. 1269. Ȝef eny oþer hyt doþ, Nys hyt ordre, ac ileaue.

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1340.  Ayenb., 50. God yaf yleaue þe dyeulen to guo in to þe zuyn. Ibid., 112. At his yleaue nymynge.

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