Obs. [f. LEGEND sb.] trans. a. with out: To tell stories of; to tell of in legend. b. To tell as a legend.

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1597–8.  Bp. Hall, Sat., I. i. 2. Nor ladies wanton love, nor wandring knight Legend I out in rimes all richly dight.

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1647.  Trapp, Comm. Rom. xi. 2. Some have legended of him [sc. Elias], that when he drew his mothers brests, he was seen to suck in fire.

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1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., III. Wks. 1851, V. 131. Some of these perhaps by others are legended for great Saints.

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