Lear - What does it mean?

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lear

Something learned; a lesson.

Learning, lore; doctrine.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:

when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].

* 1898 , (Francis James Child) (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy , from ,

They dressed up in maids' array,

And passd for sisters fair;

With ae consent gaed ower the sea,

For to seek after lear .

See (lere)

(en verb)

(transitive, archaic, and, Scotland) To teach.

(archaic) To learn.

* 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale , from ,

He hath take on him many a great emprise,

Which were full hard for any that is here

To bring about, but they of him it lear .

See (lehr)

(en noun)

* ---- ==Volapük==

(vo-noun)

olive tree

(vo-decl-noun)

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