| 单词 | to make glad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make glad a. Of persons: †cheerful, joyous, or merry in disposition (obsolete); joyful, happy (archaic). †to make glad: = ‘to make merry’.The sense in the first quot. is uncertain; it is probably a vague figurative use of sense 1, and may have meant ‘noble’, ‘glorious’, rather than ‘cheerful’; cf. bright adj. 10. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] > of disposition, mind, or heart gladc897 blithe971 lustya1225 joyousc1305 gladsomec1410 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] fainc888 gladlyc1000 golikc1175 gladful?c1225 joyfulc1290 joyousc1315 merryc1380 well begonea1425 frikec1430 rejoiced1533 delightful1534 rejoiceful1538 blitheful1559 gladded1569 blithelike1570 delighted1581 lighted1596 delighting1601 joyed1640 enjoying1651 gladdened1729 glad1799 like (or proud as) a dog with two tails1829 joyant1834 bird-blithe1917 gassed1941 enthralled1944 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xliv. 322 Sanctus Paulus..cwæð þætte ðone gladan giefan [L. hilarem datorem] God lufode. OE Beowulf 58 Heold þenden lifde gamol ond guðreouw glæde Scyldingas. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3496 Æuer wes þe king glad. & æuere he gomen luueden [c1300 Otho louede]. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 366/2 Faire man and noble he was, and glad and of swete mode. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2297 In fulsum-hed he wurðen glaðe. a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxxvii. 705 While þou miȝt, make þe glad and muri! Lengor liueþ a glad mon þen a sori. c1400 Gamelyn 470 I sitte fasting & oþer men make glade. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 332 To Parys can he ga And levyt yar full sympylly, Ye-quheyer he glaid was and ioly. a1586 W. Dunbar in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 249 Be glaid in hart for ony eventure. 1702 R. Steele Funeral i. 4 Did not I give..Twenty shillings a Week, to be Sorrowful and the more I give you, I think, the Gladder you are. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 165 A day of luxury..When the glad soul is made heaven's welcome guest. 1799 W. Wordsworth Fountain xii Often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. 1865 R. Buchanan Sutherland's Pansies v There grew a..sadness in his tone When he was gladdest. < as lemmas |
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