v. Obs. Also 4 wlath, 5 wlatte. [OE. wlatian = MLG. wlaten.]
1. intr. and impers. with dat. To feel disgust or loathing.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Num. xxi. 5. Us wlataþ nu for ðisum eohtostan.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 220. Þonne hie mete þicgeað & drincað, þonne wlatað hie.
a. 1225. Ancr. R. 86. Ȝif heo hit [sc. the filth of flattery] stunken, ham wolde wlatien þer aȝean. Ibid., 100. Forði þet tu ert ase wlech … þu makest me uorto wlatien.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 354. Ouerfulle makeþ wlatie.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 3538. Swyche men god almyȝty hatys And with here foule synne hym wlatys. Ibid., 9932. Ȝyf þou hym louest, with synne þou wlates.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 305. With her vn-worþelych werk me wlatez with-inne.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 47. His hert wold wlaton and be aschamed of hymselfe, to þenk þat he wer conceyuet of so fowle þyng.
2. trans. To loathe, abhor.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, v. 7. Man of blodes & swikel wlath sall lord.
1382. Wyclif, Eccl. ii. 18. I wlatede alle my bisynesse, that … most studiousli I trauailede.
c. 1395. Plowman’s T., III. 1098. To worship god men wolde wlate.
1493. [H. Parker], Dives & Pauper (Pynson), VI. xvii. t viii. The glose … seyth that it is amaner of spech to do wlate auoutre and shewynge that auoutrye is ful greuous.
3. To disgust.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxiv. (Pelagia), 187. Now me wlatis sa myn syne Þat I for-sak it.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 5634. It wald haue wlated any wee þat welth to be-hald.
