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gladian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§57; §78;
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to be bright, shine, gleam (of polished metal)
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  • On him gladiað gomelra láfe,

      B. 2036.
to be glad, rejoice
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  • Hwílon heó besárgað hyre líchoman sárnissa, hwílon heó gladað on gódum gelimpum, Hml. S. 1, 221. (2 a)

    to rejoice

    in something possessed :-- Februarius and Martius gladiað on fífum,
      Angl. viii. 302, 1.
trans.
to make glad.
of physical effect,
to make of cheerful appearance
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  • Ðæt hé gleadie onsiéne in ele

    ut exhiberet faciem in oleo,

      Ps. Srt. 103, 15.
of mental effect,
to gladden, cheer
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  • Ꝥ hí widuwan and steópcild georne gladian,

      Ll. Th. i. 326, 26.
to please
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  • Þá þe mid clǽnnysse him gecwémað on lífe and mid gódum weorcum hine gladiað nú,

      Hml. A. 15, 54.

  • Utan gladian georne God,

      Wlfst. 112, 12.
to make gentle, soften, appease
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  • Mildode mansuescit, gladode

    mitigat,

      Germ. 399, 436.

  • Gladode demulcet, pro demulcebat (mentem . . . nec blandimentorum lenitas

    demulcet,

      Ald. 40, 36), An. Ox. 3004.
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v. ge-gladian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “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/50885.

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