Obs. [OE. ʓeléaf: see Y- 3 a, LEAVE sb.] Permission; leave.
a. 1050. Liber Scintill., l. (1889), 165. Iniquorum potestas super te ex dei datur licentia, unrihtwisra miht ofer þe of godes ys ʓeseald ʓeleaf.
a. 1122. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1043. Be þes cynges ʓelæfan.
c. 1315. Shoreham, I. 1269. Ȝef eny oþer hyt doþ, Nys hyt ordre, ac ileaue.
1340. Ayenb., 50. God yaf yleaue þe dyeulen to guo in to þe zuyn. Ibid., 112. At his yleaue nymynge.