Lícian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lícian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- lícian
- Adrf: I. to please, (1) with person or thing as subject, (a) absolute :-- On ǽlcum lande ne lícað ꝥ on óþrum lícaþ, Bt. 18, 2 ; F. 64, 26. Hé wilnað ungemetlíce lícigean (lícian, ), Past. 143, 6. Hí woldon lícian for manna eágum, 449, 10. (b) with dat. of person pleased :-- Ic Gode lície swýðor þonne æðele cealf placebit Deo super vitulum novellutn, Ps. Th. 68, 32. Hú eów lícaþ (placet) þeós spǽc ?, Coll. M. 32, 7. Þæt ic gearewe Gode lícode at placeam coram Deo, Ps. Th. 55, ii. Hwí tie sceolde me lícian fæger land?, Bt. 14, l; F. 40, 17. Sió wilnung ðæt hé scyle monnum licigean (lícian, v. l.) cupido placendi hominibus, Past. 141, 14. Hé wilnað Gode tó líciganne (lícianne, v. l.), 371, 21. (b a) with wel, (i) to be (well) pleasing :-- Wel heó lícað ús, Coll. M. 32, 9. Mé þín módsefa lícað leng swá wel, B. 1854. Ðam wífe þá word wel licodon, 639. Gif hé wilnað ðæt hé hire lícige bet ðonne sé ðe hine sende. Past. 143, 4. (ii) to be sufficient :-- Wel lícas ðǽm dæg werignise his sufficit diei malitia sua, Mt. L. 6, 34. (2) impersonal, with dat. of person :-- Ne þé on þínum selegescotum swíðe lícað neque in tabernaculis viri beneplacitum erit ei, Ps. Th. 146, II, On ðec lícað mé in te complacuit mihi, Lk. L. R. 3, 22. ' Gif eów swá lícige. . . " Hit him lícode. Bl. H. 241, 20-24. Hié cwǽdon ; ꝥ him ꝥ líeode eallum tó healdenne dixemnt omnes: ' Placet ea custodire, ' Ll. Th. i. 58, 29. Lícige þé . . . þæt þú mé árige complaceat tibi, at erip[i]as me, Ps. Th. 39, 15, Uton healdan ꝥ frið swá hit úrum hláforde lícige, Ll. Th. i. 238, 25. Hú wolde þé nú lícian gif hwylc swíþe ríce cyning wǽre . . . , Bt. 41, 2 ; F. 244, 24. (2 a) with wel. (i) to be (well) pleasing :-- In ðǽm wel lícade sáwle míne in quo bene complacuit animae meae, Mt. L. 12, 18. Ús mára hearm tó fundode þonne ús wel licode, Cht. E. 230, 2. (ii) to be sufficient :-- Wel lícas sufficit, Mk. L. 14, 41. II. to take pleasure in :-- On þé ic wel lícade in te complacui, Mk. R. L. i. 11. v. of-kícian. lician