†aˈblend,v.Obs.Forms: inf. 1 ablendan, 2–4 ablende(n, 4 ablynde(n. ind.pres.3rdsing.1–4 ablendeð, ablent, 4 ablyndeþ. pa.tense 1–3 ablende, ableynte. pa.pple.1 ablænd, 2–4 ablent, 4 abland.[f.a- prefix 1 + blend-an to blind.Cf.Ger.erblenden. See also ablind, with which it was in later times confused.]To dazzle, to take away the sight (temporarily); to blind the moral vision.c1000ælfricPastoralEp.in Anc.Laws II. 372He[Arius]wæs ablænd on his mode.1205Layamon 14659He heom walde ufel don: Baðe ablenden and anhon.c1230Ancren Riwle 86Ualse uikelare ablendeð þeo þe ham hercneð.1297R.Glouc.208Ac þet blod adoun wende So vaste, in eye, and in face, þat hym ney ablende.c1320Seuyn Sages (W.) 2462The walmes han the abland.a1327Pol.Songs 345And so is al this world ablent, that no man douteth sinne.1340Ayenb. 16Þis ȝenne of prede..ablent men ȝuo þet hi ham⁓ȝelve ne knaweþ.1377Langl.P. Pl. B. x. 264A beem in þine owne[eye]A-blyndeth þi-selue.Ibid.xviii. 323Lucifer loke ne myȝte So lyȝte him ableynte.1393― C. xxi. 142Þis light and þis leom · shal Lucifer a-blende.