Ge-lícian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

ge-lícian

to please. Add: I. with a subject expressed. (1) a person:--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. (2) a thing:--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. II. with indefinite hit or without subject expressed:--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. III. to seem good:--Ús eallum gelícode þá, ꝥ wé sendon Paulus and Barnaban, Ll. Th. i. 56, 19. [Goth. ga-leikan: O. H. Ger. ge-líhhén placere, complacere.]

Mots connexes: wel-gelícod. ge-lician