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happening by chance, fortuitous
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  • Mid gesǽligum gelimpum

    fortuitis casibus,

      An. Ox. 4185.
happy, favoured by
lot, position, or other external circumstance, fortunate
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  • Tó hwon sceoldan míne friend seggan þæt ic gesǽlig mon wǽre ? Hú mæg sé beón gesǽlig se þe on ðám gesǽlþum ðurhwunian ne mót ?

    quid me felicem jactastis amici, Bt.

    2 ;
      F. 4, 14.

  • Hú gesǽlig seó forme eld wæs

    felix nimium prior aetas,

    15 ;
      F. 48, 2.
  • Se singala ege ne lǽt nónne mon gesǽlinne (felicem) beón ... Ic wundrige hwí men , , . wénen ꝥte þis andwearde líf mæge þone monnan dón gesǽligne . . . , þonne hit hine ne mæg æfter þýs lífe earmne gedón,
, 2; S. 26, 6-17: 14, 1 ; F. 42, 21. Dón swá gesǽligne ꝥ hé nánes þinges máran ne þyrfe, 26, i; S. 58, 17. Sume hé bereáfaþ hiora welan (weal; quosdam remordet) swíþe hraþe þæs ðe hí ǽrest gesǽlige weorþaþ, 39, II ; F. 218, 22. Gesǽlie, 5, 13; S. 13, 21: 36, 2; S. 104. Gesǽlige hí (the Innocents) wurdon geborene þæt hí móston for his intingan deáð þrowian, Hml. Th. i. 84, 1. Gif nú hwá cwiþ ꝥ sé seó gesǽlig, sé ðe his woruldlustum fulgǽþ, hwí nyle hé cweþan eác ꝥ ðá nýtenu seón gesǽlige (-sǽlegu , v. l. beatae), Bt. 31, I; F. 112, 6. Þá yfelan bióþ micle gesǽligran ðe on ðisse worulde habbaþ micelre weán feliciores esse improbas supplicia luentes, 38, 3; F. 200, 2. Getǽc mé sumne mann þára þe ðé gesǽlegost þince, ii. I ; F. 32, 16 : 20; S. 48, 12; 26, I; S. 58, 26. Se gesǽlgesta, 8 ; S. 24, 26. Þone ealra gesǽlgostan mon her on worulde, 11, I ; S. 24, 25. II a.
having a fortune, wealthy
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  • Hé gewát ǽhte lǽdan . . . golde and seolfre swídfeorm and gesǽlig,

      Gen. 1770.

  • II b. favoured in respect to mental or moral endowments, happy in disposition, &c :-- Ðæt hé sié se gesǽlgosta on eallum cræftum ofer ealle óðre men

    quasi prae ceteris praepollens,

      Past. 463, 13.
happy in respect to moral or spiritual well-being,
blessed
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  • Sé þe gód biþ, sé biþ gesǽlig, and sé ðe gesǽlig biþ, sé biþ eádig,

      Bt. 36, 6 ; F. 182, 12 : Bl. H. 101, 5.

  • Nóe wæs gód, nergende leóf, swíðe gesǽlig,

      Gen. 1286.

  • Se feónd and se freónd . . . synnig and gesǽlig,

      El. 956.

  • Ðú miht ongitan ꝥ ǽlc gód man biþ eádig, and ꝥ ealle gesǽlige men beóþ Godas

    bonos omnes, eo ipso quod boni snnt, fieri beatos liqnet; sed qui beati sunt, dees esse convenit,

      Bt. 37, 2 ; F. 190, 6.
  • III a. of the happiness of heaven :-- Inn
  • Mid his halgum on ðám écan édle wé syððan gesǽlige ríxiað, ǽlces yfeles orsorge. Hml. Th. ii. 22a, 26.
happy, characterized by good fortune, favourable, propitious
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  • Gesǽlig wæs heora ácennednys, for ðan ðe hí gemétton þæt éce líf on instæpe þæs and-weardes lífes,

      Hml. Th. i. 84, 6.

  • Gesǽlige synde[r]gife

    felix priuilegium,

      An. Ox. 2588.

  • Gesǽligum

    (propter) secunrtos (eventus),

    4549.

  • Ge-sǽligum edhwyrftum

    felici reditu,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 30.
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v. un-gesǽlig, weorold-gesǽlig.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sǽlig.” 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/49457.

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