Gladian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

gladian

Add: I. intrans. (1) to be bright, shine, gleam (of polished metal):--On him gladiað gomelra láfe, B. 2036. (2) to be glad, rejoice:--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. II. trans. (1) to make glad. (a) of physical effect, to make of cheerful appearance:--Ðæt hé gleadie onsiéne in ele ut exhiberet faciem in oleo, Ps. Srt. 103, 15. (b) of mental effect, to gladden, cheer:--Ꝥ hí widuwan and steópcild georne gladian, Ll. Th. i. 326, 26. (2) to please:--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. (3) to make gentle, soften, appease:--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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