pa. pple. Obs. Forms: 1 ȝelæfed, 3 ileaued, ileued, 4 yleued, -yd, 4–5 yleft(e, ylafte, 7 ylaft. [OE. ʓelǽfed, pa. pple. of (ʓe)lǽfan: see Y- 4 and LEAVE v.1] Left.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xv. 37. Et quod superfuit de fragmentis, & ꝥ ʓelæfed wæs of screadungum.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 168. Oure large relef þet we habbeð ileaued.
c. 1205. Lay., 28583. Þo nas þar na more ileued in þan fihte … bote Arthur þe king.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 6722. He was al one of þe tem bileued [v.r. yleft] there.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 3349. Þe Assege þanne þay y-lafte. Ibid., 5121. Tho was þe assaut y-leuyd clene.
1405. in Royal & Hist. Lett. Hen. IV. (Rolls), 158. I have nought ylafte with me over two men.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secr. Secr., lxiv. 240. Yf anythynge be y-lefte in the stomake.
c. 1634. W. Cartwright, Ordinary, II. ii. (1651), 25. None pleasaunce is me ylaft.
