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ge-lícian

  • verb [ weak ]
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ge-lícian, to please.
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with a subject expressed.
a person
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  • Gelícað (

    quasi pater in filio) complacet (sibi ),

      Kent. Gl. 40.

  • Móna se þreótteóþa . . . cild ácenned . . . ofermód, him sylfum gelícigende,

      Lch. iii. 190, 14.

  • Mǽden scamfæst, clǽne, wærum gelíc(i)gende,

      192, 3.
a thing
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  • Him wel gelícode his wurðfulniss,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 2, 34.

  • Him gelícade hire þeáwas,

      Chr. 1067; P. 201, 32.

  • Áscian Italie hiera ágene londleóde hú him þá tída gelícoden,

      Ors. 5, 1; S. 214, 12.
with indefinite
hit or without subject expressed
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  • On þám mé wel gelícað

    in quo mihi bene complacuit,

      Mt. 17, 5.

  • On þám wel gelícode mínre sáwle,

      12, 18: Bl. H. 29, 28.

  • Woldon hí innian hí þǽr heom sylfum gelícode,

      Chr. 1048; P. 172, 21.

  • Hit beforan þé swá gelícode

    sic placuit ante te,

      Lk. 10, 21.

  • Gif man wíf weddian wille, and hit swá hire and freóndan gelícige,

      Ll. Th. i. 254, 3.
to seem good
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  • Ús eallum gelícode þá, ꝥ wé sendon Paulus and Barnaban,

      Ll. Th. i. 56, 19.
Etymology
[Goth. ga-leikan: O. H. Ger. ge-líhhén placere, complacere.]
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v. wel-gelícod.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-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/48656.

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