Definition of "lefte" [lefte]

• An obsolete form of the preterit of lift.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Emperor himselfe, or vnto any other great personage, hee alwayes beheld that table, as if hee had found therein those things which hee spake: neither did he cast his eyes to the right hand, nor to the lefte, nor vpon his face, with whom he talked."
• "And lefte no trade of religion to his posteritie, because he none had learned of his father."
• "Then, come there presentes streight from al countries, and peoples of his dominion: and all the Threasoures that the kyng, his predecessour lefte, are brought him."