† blymv.
Obsolete.
To gladden.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > make joyful or delighted [verb (transitive)]
blissa1000
faina1300
joy1303
delighta1382
rejoya1393
forblissa1400
gleea1400
rejoicec1425
blymc1440
delect1510
take?1553
gladden1558
oblectate1611
beglada1617
deliciate1633
delectate1647
to set (a person) cock-a-hoop1652
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 40 Blym, or gladde, or make glad [King's Cambr. blyym or glathyn in herte, 1499 Pynson blithen or gladen].
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