leden

noun

noun

Etymology From Middle English leden, leoden, from Old English lēoden (“national or popular language”). More at leid and leed.

Obsolete Language; speech.

he was expert in prophecies, / And could the ledden of the gods unfold […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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