laft
Middle English
Alternative forms
- y-laft, ylaft
Verb
laft
- past participle of leave
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 186-188:
- And therefore in the place they han it laft / Til that the knight hath taught hem the manere / To voyden him, as ye shal after here.
- And therefore in the place they have it left / Until the knight has taught them the manner / To remove him, as you shall later hear.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Franklin's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1124-1128:
- [...] At Orliens in studie a book he say / Of magik natural, which his felawe, / That was that tyme a bacheler of lawe, / Al were he ther to lerne another craft, / Had prively upon his desk y-laft; [...]
- [...] At Orleans in a study hall he saw a book / Of natural science, which his fellow, / Who was at that time a bachelor of law, / Although he was there to learn another craft, / Had covertly left upon his desk; [...]
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 186-188:
References
- “laft”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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