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Leave

Leave

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Leaved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Leaving
]
To send out leaves; to leaf; – often with
out
.
G. Fletcher.

Leave

,
Verb.
T.
[See
Levy
.]
To raise; to levy.
[Obs.]
An army strong she
leaved
.
Spenser.

Leave

,
Noun.
[OE.
leve
,
leave
, AS.
leáf
; akin to
leóf
pleasing, dear, E.
lief
, D. oor
lof
leave, G. ar
laub
, and er
lauben
to permit, Icel.
leyfi
. √124. See
Lief
.]
1.
Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.
David earnestly asked
leave
of me.
1 Sam. xx. 6.
No friend has
leave
to bear away the dead.
Dryden.
2.
The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; – used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.
A double blessing is a’double grace;
Occasion smiles upon a second
leave
.
Shakespeare
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his
leave
of the brethren.
Acts xviii. 18.
Syn. – See
Liberty
.

Leave

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Left
(lĕft)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Leaving
.]
[OE.
leven
, AS.
l[GREEK]fan
, fr.
lāf
remnant, heritage; akin to
lifian
,
libban
, to live, orig., to remain; cf. be
līfan
to remain, G. b
leiben
, Goth. bi
leiban
. √119. See
Live
,
Verb.
]
1.
To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from;
as, to
leave
the house
.
Therefore shall a man
leave
his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.
Gen. ii. 24.
2.
To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not
leave
some gleaning grapes ?
Jer. xlix. 9.
These ought ye to have done, and not to
leave
the other undone.
Matt. xxiii. 23.
Besides it
leaveth
a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed.
Bacon.
3.
To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
Now
leave
complaining and begin your tea.
Pope.
4.
To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.
Lo, we have
left
all, and have followed thee.
Mark x. 28.
The heresies that men do
leave
.
Shakespeare
5.
To let be or do without interference;
as, I
left
him to his reflections; I
leave
my hearers to judge.
I will
leave
you now to your gossiplike humor.
Shakespeare
6.
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit – with a sense of withdrawing one's self from;
as,
leave
your hat in the hall; we
left
our cards; to
leave
the matter to arbitrators.
Leave
there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.
Matt. v. 24.
The foot
That
leaves
the print of blood where'er it walks.
Shakespeare
7.
To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath;
as, he
left
a large estate; he
left
a good name; he
left
a legacy to his niece.
Syn>- To quit; depart from; forsake; abandon; relinquish; deliver; bequeath; give up; forego; resign; surrender; forbear. See
Quit
.

Leave

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To depart; to set out.
[Colloq.]
By the time I
left
for Scotland.
Carlyle.
2.
To cease; to desist; to leave off.
“He . . . began at the eldest, and left at the youngest.”
Gen. xliv. 12.
To leave off
,
to cease; to desist; to stop.
Leave off
, and for another summons wait.
Roscommon.

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