Past tense of beglad; made glad or gladdened.
From beglad with the regular past tense suffix -ed added. This double suffix (-ed on -ad) shows one of the ways Middle English verbs formed their past tenses.
Double suffixes like this reveal how speakers sometimes reanalyze word boundaries—what was originally 'be+glad' (verb) got treated as if it needed the regular '-ed' ending, creating 'begladded.' It's linguistic creativity in action.
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