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ge-lustfullian

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to delight (intrans.),
to take pleasure
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  • Gemyndig ic wæs Godes and ic gelustfullode

    (delectatus sum),

      Ps. L. 76, 4.

  • Ne sceal man unálýfedlíce gelustfullian non concupiscere, R. Ben. 16, 19. I a. to delight in,

    rejoice

    over :-- Hió gelustfullað ofor hálwendan hire,
      Ps. L. 34, 9.

  • Wéstensetlan on wéstenes wununge gelustfulliað,

      R. Ben. 134, 16.

  • Ne gelustfulla ðú

    ne delecteris (in semitis impiorum),

      Kent. Gl. 68: 112.
to give delight to,
delight (with dat.)
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  • Ðá gelustfullode ðám cyninge heora clǽne líf and heora wynsume behát (rex ipse delectatus uita mundissitna et promissis eorum suauissimis, Bd. l, 26), Hml. Th. ii. 130, 9. II a. used impersonally :-- Sume word synd gecwedene

    inpersonalia . . . iuuat

    gelustfullað,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 206, 6.

  • Mé gelustfullað

    libet mihi,

      207, 5.
  • II a α. with infin. :-- Ús gelustfullað þyssera rynela angin preóstum aetýwan, Angl. viii.
      302, 32.
  • II a β. with dat. infin. :-- Úss
to delight a person (acc. )
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  • Þú ne gelustfulladest fýnd míne

    nec delectasti inimicos meos,

      Ps. L. 29, 2.

  • Þú gelustfullodest [mé] on þínum weorce

    delectasti me in factura tua,

      91, 5.

  • Ic wes gelusfullad

    delectabar,

      Kent. Gl. 278.

  • Þá rihtwísan beóð gewistfullode and beóð gelustfullode,

      Ps. L. 67, 4. III a.

  • Ne wéne ic ná ꝥ þes wer wǽre gelustfullod on (mid, v.l.) árfæstnysse weorce (móde, v.l.), ac on (mid, v.l.) þæs bisceopes tǽlinge

    hunc virum non pietatis opere delectatum aestimo, sed episcopi derogatione,

      Gr. D. 76, 16.
construction uncertain
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  • Gelusfullað

    delectat (animam),

      Kent. Gl. 458.
  • ¶ in the following passage the constructions of I a
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-lustfullian.” 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/48747.

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