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ge-gladian

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to make glad, gladden.
of a physical effect,
of cheerful appearance
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  • Gegladað exilaret (cor gaudens

    exhilarat

    faciem),
      Kent. Gl. 516.
of the reviving effects of a medicine
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  • Hyt þone innoð wið þæs geallan tógotennysse gegladað,

      Lch. i. 270, 5.
of a mental effect
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  • Ðú úsig gigladas

    nos laetificas,

      Rtl. 31, 32.
  • Giglædas, 21.

  • Ne þǽr árfæstnes sib ne hopa ne swige gegladað

    nec pax nec pietas immo spes nulla quietis flentibus arrident,

      Dóm. L. 220.

  • Hé his folc gegladode

    dedit requiem universis provinciis,

      Hml. A. 95, 107.

  • Gegladiga

    laetificet,

      Rtl. 18, 15.

  • Ic beó gegladod

    exhilaror,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 3.
to please
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  • Sé sé þe þæt déð þæt his þearfa beóð, sé gegladað God; and sé þe déð ǽnig unnyt, . . . hé ábelhð his Drihtne,

      Wlfst. 279, 1.

  • Gif hí mid gódum weorcum hine gegladiað,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 6, 16.

  • Ꝥ hig God gegladian,

      Ll. Th. ii. 256, 8.
to make propitious, propitiate
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  • Se cásere . . . offrigende his lác his árleásum godum wolde hí gegladian . . . ꝥ hí him fylstan sceoldon,

      Hml. S. 28, 38.
to appease, reconcile, make gentle what is hard.
the object a person
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  • Hé mid gebedum gegladað God,

      Hml. S. 3, 562.

  • Gegladode

    demulcet,

      An. Ox. 2, 137.

  • Ꝥ hí þone réðan cásere mid sceattum gegladodon,

      Hml. S. 3, 231.

  • Gegladedon

    repropitiarent, i. mitigarent,

      An. Ox. 4724: 2, 374.

  • Gegladudon

    reconciliarent, 7, 328. ¶ to reconcile to (dat. )

    :-- Þæt hé him God gegladode,
      Hml. Th. ii. 30, 33.
the object a feeling (anger, &c.)
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  • Gegladað

    placabit (indignationem ),

      Kent. Gl. 559.

  • Hé wolde hyra réðnysse gegladian (gelídian,

    v. l.) studuit eorum asperitatem placare,

      Gr. D. 80, 16.
intrans.
To be glad, rejoice
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  • Gegladade ł glæd uæs

    gauisus est,

      Jn. L. 8, 56.

  • Gigladia cirica ðín

    laetatur aecclesia tua,

      Rtl. 72, 14.

  • Gigladia ué gaudeamus, 38, 29:

    letamur,

      49, 20.

  • Rihtwíse gegladian on blisse

    justi delectentur in laetitia,

      Ps. Spl. 67, 3.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-gladian.” 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/48138.

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