▪ I. † dwele, n. Obs.
Also 3–4 dweole, 4 dwelle.
[= OE. *dwela, *dweola (dwola, dwala), or aphetic for ᵹedwela, -dweola, -dwola, in same sense, f. root dwel-, as in next. Cf. dwale n.1]
A going astray; error, delusion, deceit.
| [c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. viii. (1890) 42 Se ᵹedweola wæs on ðam Nyceaniscan sinoþe ᵹe iðerad.] a 1225 Ancr. R. 62 Louerd..wend awei mine eien vrom þe worldes dweole. c 1275 Passion our Lord 525 in O.E. Misc. 52 Þenne wrþ þe laste dwele wurse to alegge. c 1275 Orison of our Lady 35 ibid. 160 Iluued ich habbe gomen and gleo..Al þat is dweole wel i seo. a 1300 Sarmun xxvii. in E.E.P. (1862) 4 Þeiȝ freris prech of heuen and helle..al þat him þenchit bot dwelle. a 1350 Life Jesu 149 (Mätz.) It nis bote dwele. |
▪ II. † dwele, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 dwelian, dweliᵹan, 2–4 dwele.
[OE. dwelian (dweolian, dwolian), app.:—*dwelôjan, f. e-grade of ablaut series dwel-, dwal-, dwol-: see dwell.]
1. intr. To wander, go astray; to err, be deluded.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. iii. (1890) 270 Þurh moniᵹe stowe dwoliende. Ibid. xxvii. 362 To ðæm dwoliᵹendum læce⁓domum deofolᵹylda. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 384 Þæt he swa lange on ðam holte..dwelode. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxii. 29 Ᵹe dweliaþ and ne cunnon haliᵹe ᵹe-writu. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Ȝif þe larðeu dwelað hwa bið siððan his larþeu. a 1300 E.E. Psalter lvii[i]. 4 Þai dweled fra magh. |
2. intr. To be torpid, to be stunned, to swoon.
| 13.. Seuyn Sag. (W.) 770 The cradel turnd up so doun on ground, Up so doun, in hire feghting, That the child lai dweling. |