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lícian

  • verb [ weak ]
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to please,
with person or thing as subject.
absolute
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  • On ǽlcum lande ne lícað ꝥ on óþrum lícaþ,

      Bt. 18, 2 ; F. 64, 26.

  • Hé wilnað ungemetlíce lícigean (lícian,

    v. l.

    ),
      Past. 143, 6.

  • Hí woldon lícian for manna eágum,

      449, 10.
with dat. of person pleased
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  • Ic Gode lície swýðor þonne æðele cealf

    placebit Deo super vitulum novellum,

      Ps. Th. 68, 32.

  • Hú eów lícaþ

    (placet)

    þeós spǽc ?,
      Coll. M. 32, 7.

  • Þæt ic gearewe Gode lícode

    ut placeam coram Deo,

      Ps. Th. 55, 11.

  • Hwí tie sceolde me lícian fæger land?,

      Bt. 14, l; F. 40, 17.

  • Sió wilnung ðæt hé scyle monnum lícigean (lícian,

    v. l.) cupido placendi hominibus,

      Past. 141, 14.

  • Hé wilnað Gode tó líciganne (lícianne, v. l.), 371, 21. (b α) with wel, (i)

    to be (well) pleasing

    :-- Wel heó lícað ús,
      Coll. M. 32, 9.

  • Mé þín módsefa lícað leng swá wel,

      B. 1854.
  • Ðam wífe þá word wel lícodon, 639.

  • Gif hé wilnað ðæt hé hire lícige bet ðonne sé ðe hine sende. Past. 143, 4. (ii) to be sufficient :-- Wel lícas ðǽm dæg werignise his

    sufficit diei malitia sua,

      Mt. L. 6, 34.
impersonal, with dat. of person
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  • Ne þé on þínum selegescotum swíðe lícað neque in tabernaculis viri beneplacitum erit ei, Ps. Th. 146, 11, On ðee lícað mé in te complacuit mihi, Lk. L. R. 3, 22. ' Gif eów swá lícige.

    . . "

    Hit him lícode.
      Bl. H. 241, 20-24.

  • Hié cwǽdon ꝥ him ꝥ lícode eallum tó healdenne

    dixerunt omnes: ' Placet ea custodire, '

      Ll. Th. i. 58, 29.

  • Lícige þé . . . þæt þú mé árige

    complaceat tibi, at erip[i]as me,

      Ps. Th. 39, 15,
    ,

  • Hú wolde þé nú lícian gif hwylc swíþe ríce cyning wǽre . . . , Bt. 41, 2 ; F. 244, 24. (2 a) with wel. (i) to be (well) pleasing :-- In ðǽm wel lícade sáwle míne

    in quo bene complacuit animae meae,

      Mt. L. 12, 18.

  • Ús mára hearm tó fundode þonne ús wel lícode, Cht. E. 230, 2. (ii) to be sufficient :-- Wel lícas

    sufficit,

      Mk. L. 14, 41.
to take pleasure in
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  • On þé ic wel lícade

    in te complacui,

      Mk. R. L. 1. 11.
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v. of-lícian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lícian.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/54601.

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