a. Obs. Forms: 4 welsom, -sum, weelsom, 5 weylsum, welsumme. [f. WEAL sb.1 + -SOME1.] Happy, prosperous; fraught with happiness.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xxiv. 21. Wilnyng to wite whether the Lord hath maad his weye welsom [L. prosperum] or noon. Ibid., Eccles. iv. 3. I preisede more the deade than the liuende; and I demede hym welsumere [L. feliciorem] than either, that ȝit is not born.
c. 1425. Found. St. Bartholomew’s (1886), p. xcix. O ye happy and weylsum ȝe, and most weylsum religious men.
Hence † Wealsomely adv. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xxxix. 2. He was a man in alle thingis welsumly [L. prospere] doynge. Ibid., 3 John 2. Of alle thingis I make preyer, thee for to entre, and fare welsumly, as thi soule doth welsumly.
