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▪ I. glad, n.1
Also 4 glath(e.
[f. the adj.]
†1. Gladness, joy. Obs.
With quot. a 1300 compare for- prefix1 10. In quot. 1608 prob. pseudo-arch.
c1000Be Manna Wyrdum (Gr.-Wülk.) 68 Dryhten..dæleþ sumum earfeþa dæl, Sumum ᵹeoᵹoþe glæd. a1300Cursor M. 17873 Þei seide for glad [Gött. wid gladnes] wiþ gretyng gle ‘Þis ilke liȝt forsoþe is he, Þat maker is of lastyng liȝt’. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3260 Al þus þen ended Þe breþere wrathe, Þer tene turned to game & glathe. c1440Generydes 1255 When he was come and knewe that it was she, For very glad he wist not what to saye. 1608Shakes. Per. ii. Prol. 38 All perishen of man, of pelfe, Ne ought escapend but himselfe; Till Fortune tir'd with doing bad, Threw him a shore, to giue him glad.
2. ellipt. for glad eye (see glad a. 4 d).
1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 93 To give the glad-eye.., often abbreviated to the glad. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 46 Like a lot of old birds giving the glad in the Circus, or the York Road, Waterloo, more likely.
▪ II. glad, n.2|glæd|
Colloq. abbrev. of gladiolus. Usu. pl.
1923Bull. Canad. Gladiolus Soc. I. 3 We shall have a membership of at least five hundred (500) active ‘Glad’ enthusiasts. Ibid. 43 Cutting of Glads calls for a little discrimination. Ibid. 44 The wonderful Shows..have placed the ‘Glad’ in the very forefront of flower culture. 1934S. Robertson Devel. Mod. Eng. (1936) v. 120 Sometimes the problem of rival plural forms is resolved by retaining both..so it is with foci and focuses, gladioli and gladioluses. The last instance is further complicated by varying accentuation..hence some who have occasion to use the word dodge the issue altogether and say glads. 1949[see cuke]. 1969‘J. Fraser’ Cockpit of Roses xx. 151, I think them's my irises..and I'm certain those are my glads because that's my knot on the raffia.
▪ III. glad, a.|glæd|
Forms: 1, 3 glæd, 3 gled, glead, glað, 3–4 gladd(e, 4–5 glade, (5 glaad), 4–6 Sc. glaid, 3– glad.
[OE. glæd = OS. glad (only in comb. glad-môd), ON. glaðr (Sw. glad, Da. glad), bright, joyous. The orig. sense of the word is app. found in OHG. glat smooth, and is retained in G. glatt, Du. glad, glat (MDu. also gelad, gelat), Fris. gled (also Da. glat, Sw. glatt, from German). The OTeut. type *glađo- is cognate with OSl. gladŭkŭ (Russ. gladkiĭ) and L. glaber smooth (:—*ghladhro-; cf. ruber, uber with red, udder).]
†1. Bright, shining, beautiful. (Cf. 5.) Obs.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 2719 (Gr.) [He] sealde him to bote..gangende feoh and glæd seolfor. a1000Phœnix 289 in Exeter Bk., Þonne sweᵹles leoht ᵹimma gladost..eastan lixeð. a1000Sal. & Sat. (Kemble) 975 Oðer biþ golde glæ dra, oðer biþ grundum sweartra. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iii, Under theise braunches & theis bowes glade. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 168 Heylle, I cum to the with gold glade. a1500Flower & Leaf 35 Leves new..Som very rede, and som a glad light grene.
2. a. Of persons: † Cheerful, joyous, or merry in disposition (obs.); joyful, happy (arch.). † to make glad: = ‘to make merry’.
The sense in the first quot. is uncertain; it is prob. a vague figurative use of 1, and may have meant ‘noble’, ‘glorious’, rather than ‘cheerful’; cf. bright a. 6.
Beowulf (Z.) 58 [He] heold þenden lifde gamol & guðreouw glæde Scyldingas. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xliv. 322 Sanctus Paulus..cwæð þætte ðone gladan ᵹiefan [L. hilarem datorem] God lufode. c1205Lay. 7013 æuer wes þe king glad & æuere he gomen luueden [v.r. louede]. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2297 In fulsumhed he wurðen glaðe. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 366/2 Faire man and noble he was, and glad and of swete mode. 13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxvii. 705 While þou miȝt, make þe glad and muri! Lengor liueþ a glad mon þen a sori. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 332 To Parys can he ga And levyt thar full sympylly, The quhethir he glaid was and Ioly. c1400Gamelyn 470, I sitte fasting & oþer men make glade. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxiii. 1 Be mirry and glaid, honest and vertewous. 1702Steele Funeral i. i, Did I not give..twenty shillings a week, to be sorrowful? and the more I give you, I think, the gladder you are. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 165 A day of luxury..When the glad soul is made heaven's welcome guest. 1799Wordsw. Fountain xii, Often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. 1865R. Buchanan Sutherland's Pansies v, There grew a..sadness in his tone When he was gladdest.
†b. Borne with cheerfulness. Obs. [Cf. L. læta paupertas.]
c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 327 Glad pouerte is an honeste thyng certeyn.
†c. glad with: pleasant, kindly, affable to (a person). Obs.
Beowulf (Z.) 1173 Beo wið ᵹeatas glæd, ᵹeofena ᵹemyndiᵹ. c1000ælfric Gen. xliii. 14 Min drihten hine ᵹedo glædne [L. placabilem] wið eow, þæt he aᵹife eow eowerne broðor. c130511,000 Virgins 121 in E.E.P. (1862) 69 Gladdest he was wiþ his soster..Þat heo scholde so ȝung & so clene suffrie deþes pyne.
3. Rejoiced, affected with pleasure by some particular cause; = fain a. Now only pred.
In mod. Eng. (at least in prose use) the sense is much weaker than that which the word had in the older language, and which appears in the derivatives gladly, gladness. In general ‘pleased’ would now be an adequate synonym, while ‘delighted’ or ‘rejoiced’ suggest a much stronger feeling.
a. simply. (With the cause indicated contextually).
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John viii. 56 Abraham fæder iuer ᵹefeade þætte ᵹeseᵹe dæᵹe minne & ᵹesæh & ᵹegladade vel glæd uæs. a1100O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 656 Ða þa kyning heorda þæt ᵹe secgon, þa wærð he swiðe glæd. a1225Juliana 70 Ha herede godd in heouene, & warð swiðe gled [Bodl. MS. glead]. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3817 Þe [v.r. Þo] king arthure hurde þis no gladdore mon nas. c1350Will. Palerne 67 A gladere wommon under god no miȝt go on erþe þan was þe wif wiþ þe child. 1388Wyclif Prov. x. 1 A wijs sone makith glad the fadir [1535 Coverdale and 1611maketh a glad father]. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 476 Þan þai ware bathe glad and blithe. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 185 One thing in this miserie made me glad. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 192 As a wearied traveller..is then gladdest when he comes within kenning of his Countrey. 1842Tennyson Audley Court 87 We were glad at heart. Mod. ‘Your friend has won his case.’ ‘Yes; I am very glad.’
b. with prep. glad of: † (a) made happy or joyful, delighted or pleased with (an object possessed) (obs.); (b) = ‘glad to have or get’ (see 3 d); (c) joyful on account of, delighted or pleased by (an event, a state of things). Also const. at (an event, usually one affecting another person, esp. unfavourably), for (arch.), † in, † with.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke i. 14 And bið gifea ðe & glædnise & monigo in accennisse his biðon glæde. c1200Ormin 3179 Elysabæþ Wass gladd inoh & bliþe Off hire dere child Johan. c1205Lay. 3962 Þe king wes gled for his kime & for þen cnihtes bet come mid hine. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3671 Moyses was bliðe and glað of ðis. 1388Wyclif Prov. xvii. 5 He that is glad in the fallyng of another man [1611 He that is glad at calamities] schal not be vnpunyschid. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. liv. (1482) 38 He wepte ful tenderly..and netheles he was somdele glad of his deth. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 204 b, The kyng, glad of this victory, commaunded [etc.]. 1585Sidney Let. 22 Nov., Misc. Wks. (1829) 307, I fynd the people very glad of me. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. ii. 28 Why, I am glad on't. 1611― Cymb. i. i. 15 Not a Courtier..hath a heart that is not Glad at the thing they scowle at. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 178 They gave us flesh to eat, whereof I was glad as of a dainty I could not get in Italy. 1625–6Purchas Pilgrims II. 1165 And he sent me word that he was very glad with my safe arrival. 1648Gage West Ind. xii. (1655) 49 Garcia Holguin being a glad man of such a prisoner. 1697Dryden æneid x. 1118 The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile Blood. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. 119 Madam, Dinner's upon the Table.—Faith, I'm glad of it. 1784F. Burney Diary 22 Apr. II. 310, I am so glad of seeing your sentiments, when I cannot hear them, that your letters are only less valuable to me than yourself. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. III. 320 The Westminster boys were working an engine in the cloisters..D...said they were glad at the fire. 1842Tennyson Dora 66 When his heart is glad Of the full harvest. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 229 For life and love that has been, I am glad. 1874G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 201, I was glad at the sport.
c. With clause as complement: glad that, etc. In later usage chiefly with omission of that.
c1200Ormin 2812 He wass gladd, Laffdiȝ, forr þatt tu come. c1205Lay. 9374 An oðer halue he wes glæd þat his ifon weoren dæd. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 724 Blyth, and glaid, that thai war sua Eschapyt the hidwyss wawys fra. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 15 And she saide that she was gladder that she had do it [her hood] of to hym thanne to a lorde. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 71, I am glad you understand the reason of it. a1605Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 37, I am right glaide Thou art begun in write to flyte. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 58 Perseus, now a glad man, that the business had so succeeded according as he desired. 1683Temple Mem. Introd. Wks. 1731 I. 374, I am the gladder..that my publick Imployment should contribute something to your Entertainment. 1855Ld. Houghton in Life (1891) I. xi. 527, I am glad I came, as Lord E. is very low. 1884J. H. Ewing Mary's Meadow (1886) 37, I am very glad you like it.
d. With infinitive: Happy, delighted, pleased to (do, be, etc.); also, well content to (do, have, etc. something in default of better). In mod. use freq. in the phrases I am glad to hear, see (etc.); also, I should be glad to (hear, know, etc.) with sarcastic force.
c1340Cursor M. 19396 (Trin.) Oþes þenne to hem þei made To do hit were þei wondir glade. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 320 Thise ladyes were nat right glad To handle hir clothes wher Inne she was clad. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6372 To wyn away he was full glad. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 5 Euery chrysten man or woman..sholde be the gladder to fulfyll his blessed wyll. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 261 Now [they are] glaid to get Peis breid and watter Caill. 1670Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 21, I received yours and am very glad to heare you are so merry with the musicke and danceing. 1711Steele Spect. No. 52 ⁋3 We shall be heartily glad to see your short face in Oxford. 1767Junius Lett. iii. 19, I should be glad to know where you have received your intelligence? 1814D. H. O'Brien Captiv. & Escape 16 And told us that we ought to have been glad to have got any thing. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 164 He was glad to turn away from the stage and to talk about publick affairs. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 298, I was glad to see the mangrove-belt.
4. a. Of feelings, looks, actions, etc.: Filled with, marked by, or expressive of joy or delight.
a900Cynewulf Christ 315 in Exeter Bk., Him godes engel þurh glædne ᵹeþonc þa wisan onwrah. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) lii. 8 Þonne Iacob byð on glædum sælum, and Israelas ealle bliðe. a1225Ancr. R. 70 Heo schal habben leaue to..makien signes touward hire of one glede chere. a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 257 [He] þonkeð god ȝeorne wið swiðe glead heorte. c1340Cursor M. 2535 (Trin.) Melchisedech wiþ wille glade Offryng of wyn & breed made. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1038 Dido, So yong so lusty with hire eyen glade. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 178 Doun he sat the King neir And maid him glaid & gude cheir. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 217/1 She aroos up peasibly with a glad visage. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. iii. 33 In gamis glaid he was rycht weill asswetit. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 291 Thither they Hasted with glad precipitance. 1696Tate & Brady Ps. cxlix. 1 O praise ye the Lord, prepare your glad Voice. 1769Sir W. Jones Palace Fortune Poems (1777) 27 The damsel rose; and, lost in glad surprize, Cast round the gay expanse her opening eyes. 1847Lytton Lucretia 416 Surely the discovery of your son should create gladder emotions. 1852M. Arnold Poems, Youth of Nature, Cold the elation of joy In his gladdest airiest song. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxii. 159, I was soon at the bottom..fairly out of danger, and full of glad vigour.
b. Of tidings, news, etc.: Full of, or bringing, joy.
a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 257 Let him in..he bringeð us gleade tidinges. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 344 With glaid bodword, thar myrthis till amend. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 13 Wch ys the gladdest news and ioy⁓fullest tydings. 1611Bible Luke viii. 1 Shewing the glad tidings of the kingdome of God. 1833H. Martineau Tale of Tyne vii. 131 It was a glad day for him and Effie when leave was got to sell coal in London by weight. 1872C. Gibbon For the King xxi, You have given me the gladdest tidings, Johnstone, that I have heard for many days.
†c. Welcome, acceptable. Obs. rare.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 87 Her conuersation More gladde to me, then to a miser monie is. 1690Evelyn in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 170 Which, though it make a gap in my poor Collection, to which it was glad, I most cheerfully bestow it upon you.
d. the glad eye: a look or movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex; hence glad-eye v. trans., to give (someone) the glad eye. colloq.
1911Punch 22 Nov. 382/2 The lover, the elderly philanderer, the girl with the glad eye. 1913‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-Lucky ii, Miss Welwyn..from the safe harbourage of her mother's arms, was endeavouring to administer to him what is technically known, I believe, as The Glad Eye. 1923W. L. George Hail, Columbia! iv. 119, I have never seen an American girl give to a man in the street what the English call the ‘glad eye’. 1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. xvi. 150 Purves..‘glad⁓eyeing’ Hetty, trying ‘to get off with her’. 1939A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. i. 189, I do see her giving the glad eye to Pete.
e. glad hand (freq. used somewhat ironically): (the) hand of welcome; a cordial handshake or greeting; a welcome; esp. in phr. to give (someone) the glad hand; also attrib.; hence glad-hand v. trans., to greet cordially, to welcome, to please; also intr.; glad-handed ppl. a.; glad-hander, one who gives people the glad hand; one who acts cordially towards everybody; glad-handing vbl. n. and ppl. a. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 116 Give the glad hand, to welcome. 1896Ade Artie i. 4 She meets me at the door, puts out the glad hand and says: ‘Hang up your lid and come into the game.’ 1903― People You Know 175 Every time he started down town he would have to zigzag so as to cover both sides of the street and glad-hand all his Acquaintances. 1908J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 11 Glad hand, handshake without any real friendship behind it. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed ii. 14 Mr. Bylash didn't go out to give her the glad hand, and welcome her into our humble coturee. 1929C. E. Merriam Chicago 275 One type is the good fellow,..the glad hander, whose chief reliance is the cultivation of the personal friendship of individuals and the acquaintance with all sorts of groups and societies. 1930Time & Tide 11 Oct. 1256 He makes a habit of cutting out glad-hand phrases and smooth generalities. 1939Michie & Ryhlick Dixie Demagogues x. 207 Happy was stumping the hinterlands, glad-handing, back-slapping, and singing. 1945Auden Sea & Mirror ii. 55 Such are the alternative routes, the facile glad-handed highway or the virtuous averted track. 1957M. Gair Sapphires on Wednesday ix. 114 He was probably quite a kindly old geezer..but a professional glad-hander. 1958Economist 8 Nov. 492/2 General de Gaulle has stood aloof from the backslapping and glad handing. 1959New Statesman 17 Jan. 62/2 Crude economic reasons do not explain why Mikoyan should have been given the glad hand. 1960Guardian 8 Dec. 9/7 The glad-handing undertaker loves his job because ‘it makes you feel closer to people’.
f. glad rags (occas. glad clothes): (one's) best clothes; very smart or fancy clothes; spec. formal evening dress. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1902‘D. Dix’ Fables of Elite 72 All the Females Assembled in their Glad Rags and proceeded to go through their particular Stunts for his Benefit. 1905Daily Chron. 11 Jan. 4/5 Only when starvation stares him in the face will he relinquish his ‘glad clothes’, as the cowboys call them. 1907N. Munro Daft Days vii. 60 ‘There's a big garden-party to be at it—’ ‘My! I guess I'll put on my best glad rags.’ 1916J. Farnol Definite Object iii, ‘Are you comin' wi' me, sir?’ inquired Spike... ‘I surely am.’ ‘But—but not in them glad rags?’ and Spike pointed to Mr. Ravenslee's exquisitely tailored garments. 1922H. B. Hermon-Hodge Up against it in Nigeria v. 76 We all turned out in our glad rags to join in the procession. 1931E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. xii. 143 All dolled up in glad rags,..They call you Glad Rag Doll!
5. a. Of inanimate nature or its conditions: Full of brightness or beauty; suggesting feelings of cheerfulness and delight.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 386 Glad Eevning and glad Morn crownd the fourth day. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 813 Mighty Cæsar..On the glad Earth the Golden Age renews, And his great Father's Path to Heav'n pursues. 1700Prior Carmen Seculare 355 Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. 1712Tickell Spect. No. 410 ⁋6 It wants no Glad Perfume Arabia yields In all her Citron Groves, and spicy Fields. a1790Cowper Morning Dream 1 'Twas in the glad season of spring. 1835Lytton Rienzi viii. iii, The glad sun rising gorgeously from the hills revived his wearied spirit. 1853C. Brontë Villette iv. (1876) 34 What a living spring! What a warm, glad summer! 1865Swinburne Ballad of Life 2 Full of sweet trees and colour of glad grass.
†b. Fertile, flourishing (= L. lætus). Obs. rare.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 8 In placis glade [and lene], in placis drie The medis clensid tyme is now to make. Ibid. 186 They [lettuces] that thynnest stondith beth gladdest.
6. dial. (See quots.)
Cf. Sw. dial. glad ‘open’, said e.g. of a door which does not shut closely. In some Eng. dialects glid and gleg are found in the same sense.
1674–91Ray N.C. Words 31 Glad, is spoken of Doors, Bolts &c., that go smoothly and loosely. 1883Almondb. Gloss., Glad, smooth, easy. A screw turns too glad when the hole is too large.
7. quasi-adv. = gladly adv. poet.
c1340Cursor M. 13697 (Fairf.) To þe temple he ȝode for to teyche..þe men atte glad walde him here. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 601 He saw the king was engreuit, and gat furth glaid. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxix. 45 How glaid that ever I dyne or sowp. 1727–46Thomson Summer 477 The heart beats glad. c1790Cowper Needless Alarm 62 He..knows..How glad they catch the largess of the skies.
8. Comb., as glad-cheered, glad-eyed, glad-flowing, glad-hearted, glad-sad, glad-surviving adjs.; † glad-milch adj., giving milk freely (of cows; cf. quot. 1883).
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 9752 Doughtiest knyght at alle nedes..*Glad-chered, louely, & lordlyest of alle.
1878J. G. Whittier Vision of Echard 59 The freedom of the unshamed wind Among the *glad-eyed flowers.
1818L. Hunt Epist. B. Field 76 And then taking our food, 'Tis exercise turns it to *glad-flowing blood.
1869W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth 243 The loving constant service of the *glad-hearted girl.
1601Holland Pliny xxviii. ix, The bigger bodied beasts be more *glad-milch. [1883Almondb. Gloss., Gladmelshed, said of a cow which loses her milk even as she lies down.]
1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue 354 This Hymn shee sings with *glad-sad warbling voice. a1618― Paradox agst. Libertie 630 Whose glad-sad crosse conflicts afflict him day and night. 1630Drayton Moses i. 107 The glad-sad parents full of joy and care Faine would reserue their Infant if they could.
1603B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i, Out only *glad-suruiuing hopes, The noble issue of Germanicus.
▪ IV. glad, v.|glæd|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. gladded. Forms: 1 (ᵹe-)gladian, Mercian gleadian, 2–3 gladien, 3 gleadien, 3–4 gledien, 4–5 gladie, gladye, gladen, gladd(e, 4–6 glade, 6 Sc. gled, 4– glad.
[OE. gladian (also ᵹegladian):—OTeut. *glađôjan, f. *glađo- glad. The intr. sense ‘to be glad’ is the orig. one; the trans. use ‘to make glad’ is found in ON. glaða of similiar formation. ON. had also gleðja (:—*glaðjan) ‘to be glad, to make glad’.]
†1. intr. To become or to be glad; to rejoice. Const. on, in, of, for. Obs.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. John viii. 56 Abraham..ᵹegladade [Rushw. gladade] vel glæd wæs. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 442 Ne gladiᵹe on þæt noþer ne cyning ne worul(d)rica. c1205Lay. 4410 Þa Brennes hauede ihirde his hirde-manne lare, þa gladede is mod. a1225Ancr. R. 358 Blescieð ou & gledieð. a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 2, I sall be fayn & i sall glade in þe. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxx. 5 In his lif he saȝ, and gladide in hym [1388 and was glad in hym]. c1460Towneley Myst. vii. 111 Myrth I make till all men And warn theym that thay glad. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxviii. 66/1 Man byrde & beste begynne to gladde for Joye of the lyght. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 334 Absence shall not take thee from mine eyes, nor afflictions shall barre me from gladding in thy good. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 520 The one as a friend glading in his presence. 1622Massinger Virg. Mart. ii. ii, Gladst thou in such scorne? I call my wish backe.
2. trans. To make glad, to cause to rejoice. arch.
c825Vesp. Psalter ciii. 15 Win ᵹeblissað heortan monnes ðæt he gleadie onsiene in ele. c1000ælfric Lev. i. 3 Bringe he..an unwemme oxancelf..drihten mid to gladienne [Vulg. ad placandum sibi dominum]. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 97 He us fette ut of helle wowe and þermide us gledede. c1230Hali Meid. 27 Streon of feire children þat gladien muchel þe ealdren. a1300Cursor M. 3795 Wel was he gladed o þis sight. 1352Minot Poems v. 53 Þe gude Erle of Glowceter, God mot him glade. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 170 And gaf hym golde..that gladded his herte. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3089 Now last herd ȝ⊇ how crist gladide oure faders in helle. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 36 Care not for dremes, for they gladdeth none but foles. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 266 At length we land far off descryde: Which sight much gladed me. 1602Thomas Ld. Cromwell ii. ii. B 2 b, It glads my hart to thinke vpon the slaue. 1663F. Hawkins Youth's Behav. i. 7 When thou shalt hear the misfortunes of another, shew not thy self gladded for it. 1682Bunyan Holy War 261 They were greatly gladded thereat. 1749Smollett Regicide ii. i, By heav'n it glads me, that my sword shall find An ample field to-day. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. i, The hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. 1867Sat. Rev. 6 July 23/2 Here the Chorus..trills a downright English song that glads the heart. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 326 Yet shame of me, That I should dull the joy that gladdeth thee.
b. transf.
1596Spenser F. Q. vi. x. 44 Like to a flowre that feeles no heate of sunne Which may her feeble leaves with comfort glade. 1622Wither Philarete (1633) 623 'Tis as when a flash of light Breakes from heaven to glad the night. 1646Crashaw Sospetto d' Herode i. xiv, Green vigour Gladding the Scythian rocks and Libian sands. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 412 Those causes which have fertilized and gladded the Vallies of our Israel. 1704–9Pope Autumn 72 Now bright Arcturus glads the teeming grain.
3. refl. To rejoice. Obs. exc. arch.
1340Ayenb. 238 Þe dyeulen ham gledieþ huanne hi moȝe ouercome..ane guodne man. Ibid. 258 Ne glede þe naȝt ine uayr ssroud. c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 601 Alle thyng repeirynge to his kynde Gladeth hym self. c1500Plumpton Corr. 110, I recomend me unto your mastership..ever me glad to here of your prosperytie. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. ii. 401 All men gladded themselves with this conclusion. 1871Browning Balaust. 461, I glad me in my honours too!
Hence † ˈgladded ppl. a., gladdened, delighted.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 3 Then the joyfull Kentishe men did conduct the gladded Normanes. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. i. 1 When a rich Crown has newly kiss'd the Temples of a gladded king. 1659C. Noble Answ. Immod. Queries 5 A thousand gladded mouthes will speak the contrary.
▪ V. glad(d
obs. pa. tense of glide v. |