See sellen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
"ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 29-30; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
"text": "Wou ſitte ye poſtles. a[n]t wi nule ye ete. / ic am ibouſt a[n]t iſold. to day foꝛ oure mete.",
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"english": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 13:17, page 122v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "þat no man mai bie eiþ[ir] ſille .· but þei han þe caracter eiþ[ir] þe name of þe beeſte · eiþ[ir] þe nou[m]bꝛe of his name",
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"english": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
"ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
"text": "I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.",
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"note": "Southern, SW Midland"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"second-person",
"singular"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "selde",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
"subjunctive"
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},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"singular",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
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]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "selle",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "solden",
"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"imperative",
"plural",
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{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sellynge",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "sellende",
"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "seld",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ysold",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yseld",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
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"past"
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}
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"c": "irr",
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}
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
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"glosses": [
"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To gift; to give or confer a present."
],
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],
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{
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"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To serve or administer; to give comestibles."
],
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[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"confer",
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"bestow",
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[
"serve",
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],
[
"administer",
"administer"
],
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"comestible",
"comestible"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To grant; to confer or bestow:",
"To sacrifice or hand over (one's life)"
],
"links": [
[
"grant",
"grant"
],
[
"confer",
"confer"
],
[
"bestow",
"bestow"
],
[
"sacrifice",
"sacrifice"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
],
[
"life",
"life#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:",
"To market; to put up for sale."
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
],
[
"market",
"market"
],
[
"put up",
"put up"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:",
"To sell into slavery; to enslave for money."
],
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[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
],
[
"slavery",
"slavery"
],
[
"enslave",
"enslave"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
]
},
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"categories": [
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "\"How are you, apostles? Why won't you eat? / I was bought and sold today for our food.\"",
"ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 29-30; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
"text": "Wou ſitte ye poſtles. a[n]t wi nule ye ete. / ic am ibouſt a[n]t iſold. to day foꝛ oure mete.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "[…] so nobody could buy or sell [anything] unless they had the mark, the name of the Beast, or the number denoting his name.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 13:17, page 122v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "þat no man mai bie eiþ[ir] ſille .· but þei han þe caracter eiþ[ir] þe name of þe beeſte · eiþ[ir] þe nou[m]bꝛe of his name",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction"
],
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[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"sale",
"sale"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"To sell; to make a sale or transaction:"
]
},
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"enm:Religion"
],
"glosses": [
"To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"To sell one's soul; to consign one's soul to Hell."
],
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[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction#English"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"soul",
"soul"
],
[
"consign",
"consign"
],
[
"Hell",
"Hell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually negative) To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"(religion) To sell one's soul; to consign one's soul to Hell."
],
"tags": [
"negative",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)"
],
"links": [
[
"give",
"give"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange"
],
[
"transaction",
"transaction#English"
],
[
"weaken",
"weaken"
],
[
"adulterate",
"adulterate"
],
[
"lose",
"lose"
],
[
"exchange",
"exchange#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually negative) To give up in exchange (outside of an explicit transaction).",
"(figuratively) To weaken, adulterate or lose (in exchange)"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"negative",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "\"I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.\"",
"ref": "c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:",
"text": "I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To betray; to give up or hand over (usually a person)"
],
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[
"betray",
"betray"
],
[
"give up",
"give up"
],
[
"hand over",
"hand over"
],
[
"person",
"person#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To get revenge (for a transgression or wrong)."
],
"links": [
[
"get",
"get"
],
[
"revenge",
"revenge"
],
[
"transgression",
"transgression#English"
],
[
"wrong",
"wrong#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛlən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsilən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈzylən/",
"note": "Southern, SW Midland"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈzulən/",
"note": "Southern, SW Midland"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cellyn"
},
{
"word": "sel"
},
{
"word": "selle"
},
{
"word": "sellyn"
},
{
"word": "sillen"
},
{
"word": "sille"
},
{
"word": "sulle"
},
{
"word": "sullen"
},
{
"word": "syllen"
},
{
"word": "sellenn"
},
{
"word": "seollen"
},
{
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
],
"word": "sullan"
},
{
"tags": [
"Kent"
],
"word": "zelle"
}
],
"word": "sellen"
}
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