"orlay" meaning in English

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        "3": "*uzlagą",
        "lit": "that which is laid out; out-lay; plan; design",
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English orlæġ (“fate”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀlag, *uʀlag, from Proto-Germanic *uzlagą (“destiny; fate”, literally “that which is laid out; out-lay; plan; design”). Equivalent to or- + lay.",
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          "ref": "2004, Nathaniel Harris, Witcha: A Book of Cunning",
          "text": "There laws they laid, there life chose, To men's sons, and spoke orlay […]",
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          "ref": "2006, An Heathen Reader: Some Thoughts on the State of Things I Think, anheathenreader.blogspot.com/.../some-thoughts-on-state-of-things-i.html",
          "text": "I am fully aware of how Oaths affect my Orlay and my Wyrd. I am Oathed to no one, save the Holy Ones and my Wife."
        },
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          "ref": "2009, Alaric Albertsson, Travels Through Middle Earth",
          "text": "You could think of your own orlay as the source or seed of your “personal wyrd.” A newborn infant initially inherits its orlay from its parents and ancestors. This initial orlay is its heritage, compiled from the words and deeds of those ancestors.",
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          "ref": "2011, Swain Wodening, The Sacred and the Holy",
          "text": "These deeds done within the innangard of the tribe by its tribesmen are its law, its orlay.",
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          "ref": "2021, Winifred Rose, Heathen Soul Lore Foundations",
          "text": "Remember how I wrote at the beginning of this chapter that the Norns 'shape' orlay. Orlay itself gives a person 'shape' within the dimensions of Time and Wyrd.",
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          "text": "I am fully aware of how Oaths affect my Orlay and my Wyrd. I am Oathed to no one, save the Holy Ones and my Wife."
        },
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          "ref": "2009, Alaric Albertsson, Travels Through Middle Earth",
          "text": "You could think of your own orlay as the source or seed of your “personal wyrd.” A newborn infant initially inherits its orlay from its parents and ancestors. This initial orlay is its heritage, compiled from the words and deeds of those ancestors.",
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          "ref": "2021, Winifred Rose, Heathen Soul Lore Foundations",
          "text": "Remember how I wrote at the beginning of this chapter that the Norns 'shape' orlay. Orlay itself gives a person 'shape' within the dimensions of Time and Wyrd.",
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      ],
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      ],
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